FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their illegals to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/17/families-impacted-by-ice-raids-denounce-trump-administrations-arrests-file-emergency-motion/
— Decades before Irish were Chicago political royalty, they lived in a ramshackle slum called Kilgubbin. My ancestors on my father’s side immigrated from what is now Germany in 1844. They worked in a Chicago brick factory until 1854 when they had saved enough money to homestead a farm in southeast Crete Township.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/16/irish-chicago-kilgubbin/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with foreign countries against America.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2025/03/17/denmark-europe-boycott-us-goods-trump-tariffs-trade-greenland-eu-musk-tesla
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2025/03/17/trump-administration-deports-hundreds-immigrants-court-order-el-salvador
DAILY HERALD
— Illinois could legalize internet gambling. Casinos say it will hurt them.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250317/business/illinois-could-legalize-internet-gambling-casinos-say-it-will-hurt-them/
ABC7
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote the hate-filled Trump-hating Kinzinger.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-biden-pardons-ex-rep-adam-kinzinger-jan-6-committee-member-fires-back-claim-are-invalid/16040145/
NBC5
— Trump says autopen voids Biden’s pardons for Jan. 6 committee. Trump has argued that the committee members are guilty of unspecified “major crimes.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-biden-autopen-voids-jan-6-pardons/3699413/?os=dio____ref%3Dapp&ref=app
FOX32
— A French Parliament member wants America to return the Statue of Liberty. Far too many foreign countries despise/hate America. Far too many of them dump their problematic citizens on America.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/raphael-glucksmann-statue-liberty-back
— MN lawmakers want to define ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ as a mental illness. Ever-increasingly, Democrats and RINOIs blame Trump for all their problems, for all your problems, and for all of everyone’s problems.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/mn-lawmakers-want-make-trump-derangement-syndrome-mental-illness
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad. I should write about my critics/opponents who blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I would focus on a) those candidates, b) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, c) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, and d) conservative and religious leaders and activists. It is called scapegoating.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1609814
WGN RADIO
— Democrat and RINO leaders want Democrats and RINOs to punish Tesla owners because of Musk, that is, because of Trump.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/newsclick/the-john-williams-newsclick-is-it-okay-to-vent-doge-criticism-on-tesla-owners/#/questions
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-476/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-269/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Illinoisans haven’t yet connected the dots between bad policies, bad outcomes and the politicians they vote for.
https://wirepoints.org/illinoisans-havent-yet-connected-the-dots-between-bad-policies-bad-outcomes-and-the-politicians-they-vote-for-wirepoints-on-the-crisis-cast/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Today, again using 800 mailing labels and 400 envelopes, I will hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. I have divided my precinct into four zones. It takes me about three/four hours to walk a zone. While I walk my precinct, I will get a measure of the success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters have had promoting more hatred against Trump. Republican Precinct Committeemen are lightning rods for that hatred. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad. I should write about my critics/opponents who blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I would focus on a) those candidates, b) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, c) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, and d) conservative and religious leaders and activists. It is called scapegoating. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it in the 1980s and 1990s, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee. If Gingrich had formed a team to reform GAO, I would have volunteered to be a member of that team. I would have stressed a) that I had worked for GAO since 1980 and the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in1981, d) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997, and e) that I earned an MBA in 1976, a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and a master’s degree in finance in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How do you deal with your critics/opponents? I should write about my critics/opponents and how they use their adverse actions against me against me. I would start with my critics/opponents who had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee last year and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— What Exactly is in the Homeschool Bill – HB 2827?
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/what-exactly-is-in-the-homeschool-bill-hb-2827/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Musk: Democrats used $200 billion to ‘buy’ votes of illegal immigrants
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3349807/musk-democrats-200-billion-buy-votes-illegal-immigrants/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Trump Admin Launches Probe Into Big Law DEI Policies. The EEOC is asking white shoe firms to provide detailed information about their hiring practices.
https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/trump-admin-launches-probe-into-big-law-dei-policies/
NEW YORK POST
— Federal judges’ Trump hate is only harming the courts themselves
https://nypost.com/2025/03/17/opinion/how-federal-judges-trump-hate-is-harming-the-courts/
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY
— Trump Administration Brings Changes to the Federal Hiring System. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. I had qualified myself by a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management in 1970, c) earning an MBA in 1976, and d) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.
https://americansforprosperity.org/policy-corner/trump-administration-brings-changes-to-the-federal-hiring-system-a-brief-look-at-president-trumps-schedule-f-policy-career-policy-and-civil-service-reform/
BLAZE
— History affirms Trump’s right to use the Alien Enemies Act against gangs
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/history-affirms-trumps-right-to-use-the-alien-enemies-act-against-gangs
BREITBART
— Pritzker Dumping Healthcare Program for Older Illegal Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/17/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-dumping-healthcare-program-older-illegal-migrants/
— DOJ Argues ‘Court Lacks the Jurisdiction’ After Judge Blocks Trump Use of Alien Enemies Act
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/17/doj-argues-court-lacks-jurisdiction-judge-blocks-trump-use-alien-enemies-act/
— Left Portrays Pro-Hamas Activist Mahmoud Khalil as Victim of Trump’s Deportation Policy
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/17/left-portrays-mahmoud-khalil-as-victim-of-trumps-deportation-policy/
— Socialist Venezuela Compares Trump Deporting Tren de Aragua Thugs to the Holocaust
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/03/17/hold-for-ezra-socialist-venezuela-compares-trump-deporting-tren-de-aragua-thugs-to-the-holocaust/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Colleges and universities are not backing away from wokeness. They are putting it under the table, off the books.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/our-colleges-and-universities-arent-backing-away-from-wokeness/
NEWSBUSTERS
— The Media Protest Trump Deportations of Illegal Alien Gangbangers to El Salvador’s CECOT Prison
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2025/03/18/unhinged-media-now-protest-trump-deportations-illegal-alien
TOWNHALL
— 95 Percent of Federal Employees Express Liberal Views at Work. As I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates got ever-increasingly anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://townhall.com/columnists/jacob-sagert/2025/03/18/95-percent-of-federal-employees-express-liberal-views-at-work-n2653950
— Democrat Gov: I Won’t Allow Trump to Take Illegal Aliens ‘Off the Streets.’ Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2025/03/17/hochul-speaking-on-ice-and-illegal-aliens-in-nyc-n2653928
— DEI-Obsessed Democrats Are Doing This on Purpose
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/03/17/arlington-cemetery-removes-pages-on-black-veterans-and-women-n2653943
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Under Biden, constructively, Americans were barred from everything if they did not promote LGBTQ.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5199691-third-challenge-trump-order-transgender-troops/
— Harvard is expanding free tuition in diversity push My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. Nevertheless, he believed that was too much to qualify for financial scholarships. And as my critics/opponents have always stressed, I did not qualify for scholastic scholarships because my ACT score was only 24 and I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. Therefore, I worked my way through college.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5198613-harvard-free-tuition-diversity-ivy-league-supreme-court/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Harvard University announced Monday it will be expanding free tuition to more students, a move adopted by other schools since the Supreme Court ruled affirmative action could no longer be used in college admissions. Harvard said students from families making less than $200,000 a year will not be charged for tuition, expanding on a previous decision to make the school completely free, covering tuition, housing and other costs, for those coming from families making less than $100,000 a year.)
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump’s Hard-Line Tactics Are Driving Down Illegal Migration
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/americas/mexico-trump-migration.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly oppose a) all Trump budget cuts and b) all Trump spending increases.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/nyregion/columbia-research-grants-trump.html
— Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/us/politics/trump-order-voice-of-america.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their illegals to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/americas/el-salvador-venezuela-deportations-families.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Communist China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opinion/trump-china-trade-war.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ask “Do Americans Approve of President Trump?”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Trump’s Grievance-Filled Speech Makes Clear His Quest for Vengeance Is Personal.” I should write about my critics/opponents and how they use their adverse actions against me against me. I would start with my critics/opponents who had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee last year and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/us/politics/trump-speech-doj-retribution.html
— Trump Appoints Michael Flynn, Walt Nauta and Other Allies to Oversee Military Academies. Among other appointees were Charlie Kirk, Sean Spicer and the daughter of Steve Bannon. President Trump purged several of the military oversight boards last month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-military-academies-flynn-nauta.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow about their success in promoting more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/trump-economy-polling.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/upshot/abortion-bans-births-study.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump administration moves to reinstate thousands of probationary employees. After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious when they learned that because I had served my probationary period when I was an IRS employee, they could not just fire me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/17/trump-administration-reinstates-fired-probationary-workers/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly paint their illegals as being GOD-LIKE.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/17/trump-presidency-news/
USA TODAY
— Trump has promised to rid the government of “waste, fraud and abuse.” But he’s fired many of the people who look for it in schools. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/03/16/education-department-waste-fraud-abuse-cuts/82370646007/
SACRAMENTO BEE
— Soon, if not already, everyone in healthcare will be most, if not virtually all of the following: non-Republican, liberal, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or citizens of foreign countries.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article302217539.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly paint their illegals as being GOD-LIKE.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-deportations-gang-members-james-boasberg-tom-homan-nayib-bukele-ms-13-tren-de-aragua-6e377106
BUSINESS STANDARD
— US to undocumented immigrants: Leave now or pay up to $700 per day
https://www.business-standard.com/finance/personal-finance/us-to-undocumented-immigrants-leave-now-or-pay-up-to-700-per-day-125031800940_1.html
POLITICO
— Trump stacks military academy boards with MAGA loyalists, including Michael Flynn, Charlie Kirk, and Steve Bannon’s daughter. Just kidding, but will Trump form a GAO oversight board and appoint me to it?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/17/michael-flynn-charlie-kirk-trump-appointments-00234637
PBS
— The history of civil service and the impact of Trump’s slashing of the workforce. For Democrats, government exists to hire, to retain, and to promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/daily-news-lessons/2025/03/the-history-of-civil-service-and-the-impact-of-trumps-slashing-of-the-workforce
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY
— Trump is the right’s tool to dismantle a century of progress
https://www.peoplefor.org/trump-rights-tool-dismantle-century-progress
Tag: illegals
March 15, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Amid backlash against Musk and DOGE, Tesla owners say they’re caught in the middle. Tesla owners have been victims of vandalism, rude behavior and assumptions about their politics since CEO Elon Musk joined the Trump administration and began slashing jobs. Owners say they’re regular folks with regular jobs who can’t afford to pay for repairs. (COMMENT: In how much danger are Tesla owners in in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2025/03/16/tesla-elon-musk-doge-vandalism-trump
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illegals scramble as state health insurance faces the axe in Pritzker’s budget plan. Democrat and RINO leaders use free health insurance to get citizens of foreign countries to immigrate illegally.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/16/immigrant-illinois-health-insurance-cuts-impact/
— The cards are stacked against the humanities. How should colleges respond? (COMMENT: What did you major in? I majored in business at UIC 1966-1968, personnel management at NIU 1969-1970 and at Loyola 1972-1976, accounting at DePaul 1976-1980, and finance at IIT 1992-1997. I should have majored in accounting from the beginning. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. But by then, the accounting profession viewed me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting.)
https://www.aol.com/commentary-cards-stacked-against-humanities-080000140.html
— What to know about El Salvador’s mega-prison after Donald Trump sent hundreds of immigrants there
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/16/el-salvadors-mega-prison/
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/17/mayor-brandon-johnson-outreach-to-black-chicago/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Fighting antisemitism (COMMENT: I should write about my Democrat superiors in the federal government who had the greatest success in forcing my many Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me. They stressed that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant, and German American. They stressed that I lived in Crete 1948-1972 and in Wheaton since 1978.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/03/16/fighting-antisemitism-requires-dialogue-education-and-shared-values
DAILY HERALD
— Vandals tag new Tesla dealership in Buffalo Grove with graffiti (COMMENT: In how much danger are Tesla owners in in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? The vehicles that you own say more about you than anything that you can say about yourself. I own a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus, 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium, 2021 Chevrolet Malibu Premier, 2019 Ford Escape Titanium, 2018 Chevrolet Cruze LT, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2005 Corvette, 1996 Ford thunderbird LX, and 1972 Corvette. If you share my interest in the aforesaid vehicles, please let me know.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250315/news/vandals-tag-new-tesla-dealership-in-buffalo-grove-with-offensive-graffiti/
— Milton Township Highway Commissioner Gary Muehlfelt doing a great job – Chuck Smith
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250317/letters-to-the-editor/highway-commissioner-doing-a-great-job/
— Democrat leaders want more low income housing in DuPage County. The less income that you have, the more likely that you vote for Democrats.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250316/news/how-dupage-county-could-expand-affordable-housing/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois Universities continue to function as arms of the Democrat Party, that is, they continue to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-daily-gist/illinois-universities-stay-put-diversity-efforts-despite-trump
ABC7
— Tesla dealership vandalized in Buffalo Grove with graffiti critical of Trump, Musk (COMMENT: In how much danger are Tesla owners in in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/tesla-car-dealership-vandalized-buffalo-grove-graffiti-critical-president-donald-trump-elon-musk-police-say/16035252/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwxl3avx7Zs
— Trump is invoking the Alien Enemies Act. Here are answers to key questions about the 1798 law
https://abc7chicago.com/post/amid-donald-trumps-invocation-alien-enemies-act-here-are-answers-key-questions-1798-law/16034035/
— Early voting expands in Illinois for April 1 municipal election
https://abc7chicago.com/post/early-voting-expands-illinois-april-1-municipal-election/16036875/
CBS2
— Early voting kicks off Monday for April 1 municipal election in Illinois (COMMENT: Today, using 800 mailing labels and 400 envelopes, I will start hand-delivering Republican campaign literature and sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. I have divided my precinct into four zones. It takes me about three/four hours to walk a zone. While I walk my precinct, I will get a measure of the success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters have had promoting more hatred against Trump. Republican Precinct Committeemen are lightning rods for that hatred. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy7l4EjAk8E
FOX32
— Hundreds of Venezuelans deported by Trump administration despite judge’s order
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/venezuelans-deported-trump-alien-enemies-act
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Hundreds protest Tesla showrooms over Musk’s DOGE work
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/hundreds-protest-tesla-showrooms-over-musks-doge-work/
— Is Public Service Loan Forgiveness going away? Understanding Trump’s executive order. (COMMENT: I was a public servant for almost 30 years; almost 18 years while I worked for GAO, 9 years for IRS, and 3 years for the Post Office.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/is-public-service-loan-forgiveness-going-away-understanding-trumps-executive-order/
WBEZ
— Only 6% of Chicago shootings lead to arrests
https://www.wbez.org/criminal-justice/2025/03/16/shootings-nonfatal-unsolved-chicago-police-department-clearance-rate
QUAD CITY TIMES
— According to my critics/opponents they owe their successes in life to meritocracy, but you do not. According to my critics/opponents they were discriminated against by those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://qctimes.com/opinion/letters/article_b48a01da-f616-11ef-8cb4-2f5cf2ffae99.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump deports hundreds of migrants to El Salvador
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-16/president-trump-deports-hundreds-of-migrants-to-el-salvador
WIFR
— AAA analyzes cannabis users’ views of driving while high
https://www.wifr.com/2025/03/16/aaa-analyzes-cannabis-users-views-driving-while-high/
WCIA
— Trump admin deports hundreds of migrants, despite judge’s order stopping removal
https://www.wcia.com/news/national/trump-admin-deports-hundreds-of-migrants-despite-judges-order-stopping-removal/
— Trump administration ramps up rhetoric targeting the courts amid mounting legal setbacks
https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-administration-ramps-up-rhetoric-targeting-the-courts-amid-mounting-legal-setbacks/
IPM NEWS
— Dozens protest Trump policies and congresswoman in Mahomet; Other Reps. quiet on town hall planning
https://ipmnewsroom.org/dozens-protest-trump-policies-and-congresswoman-in-mahomet-other-reps-quiet-on-town-hall-planning/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-475/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Today, using 800 mailing labels and 400 envelopes, I will start hand-delivering Republican campaign literature and sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. I have divided my precinct into four zones. It takes me about three/four hours to walk a zone. While I walk my precinct, I will get a measure of the success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters have had promoting more hatred against Trump. Republican Precinct Committeemen are lightning rods for that hatred. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris.- Dave Diersen
http://www/gopillinois.com
— To help elect a candidate is to entwine your fate with that candidate. Far too many candidates who I have helped elect have disappointed me. Far too many blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats. Far too many have dumped more and more and more planks in the Republican Party platform. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Anticipate/expect that some Democrat and RINO leaders will put their promotion of DEI under the table and off the books. I should write about those Democrat and RINO leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton who have bragged the most about their DEI promotion, that is, who have bragged the most about their promotion of race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— From the beginning, according to my critics/opponents, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. My critics/opponents are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, RINO, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. But in fact, I owe my successes in life a) to my parents, b) to my Missouri Synod Lutheran grade school teachers, and c) to my following the conservative principles that they taught me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— All during my lifetime, everyone around me came under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to give ever-increasing preference to those who were minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. I should write about my critics/opponents who promote Affirmative Action and DEI the most, that is, my critics/opponents who promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination the most. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to my critics/opponents they owe their successes in life to meritocracy, but you do not. According to my critics/opponents they were discriminated against by those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Despite paying second highest gas taxes, study shows Illinoisans deal with subpar roads
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_61bf4080-0112-11f0-a347-d37deb3fcf96.html
— Bloomington Public Schools District 87 staff were directed to participate in “Privilege Walks” in which teachers start on a line and take a step forward for each “privilege” they identify with, like being white, a male, having married parents, etc. Illinois state Rep. Regan Deering, R-Decatur, anticipates DEI “privilege walks” will likely continue despite Trump’s executive orders banning these types of programs in the public sector. (COMMENT: From the beginning, according to my critics/opponents, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. My critics/opponents are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, RINO, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. But in fact, I owe my successes in life a) to my parents, b) to my Missouri Synod Lutheran grade school teachers, and c) to my following the conservative principles that they taught me.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_0ea41120-0106-11f0-a517-1325eb54974e.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Conservation District Provides 196-Page Data Dump to County Board
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/16/conservation-district-provides-data-dump-to-county-board/
— Ness at Crystal Lake Library Monday March 17th
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/16/ness-at-crystal-lake-library-monday-march-17th/
— Sign War in Nunda Township Road Commissioner Contest
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/16/sign-war-in-nunda-township-road-commissioner-contest/
— Sosnowski, Ugasta Quoted in Real Estate Tax Article
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/16/sosnowski-ugasta-quoted-in-real-estate-tax-article/
— Schakowsky & Durbin at Chicago Stand Up for Science Demonstration, Photos from MSNBC
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/16/schakowsky-durbin-at-chicago-stand-up-for-science-demonstration-photos-from-msnbc/
— Free Columbia University Hamas Student Leader, Dick Dubin’s Democratic Party Committee X Account Urges
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/15/free-columbia-university-hamas-student-leader-dick-dubins-democratic-party-x-account-urges/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— ‘Homeschool Act’ attacks religious rights of homeschool, private school parents
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/homeschool-act-attacks-religious-rights-of-homeschool-private-school-parents/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— As ICE arrests increase, illegal immigrants are fighting back
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/16/ice-arrests-increase-illegal-immigrants-fighting-back/
— New poll shows Democratic Party’s popularity at an all-time low
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/16/new-poll-shows-democratic-partys-popularity-time-low/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Illinois Restricts Government Contracts to DEI Supporters, Propping Up Divisive Industry. Pritzker-backed law requires contract bidders to ‘prioritize their diversity initiatives if they hope to be competitive.’
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/illinois-restricts-government-contracts-to-dei-supporters-propping-up-divisive-industry/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump ties for highest approval he’s ever had — as more Americans say US is on right track than any time in 20 years.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/16/us-news/trump-hits-highest-approval-hes-ever-had/
— Here’s why real diversity should focus on class — not race (COMMENT: What if Affirmative Action was only for those whose parents did not have a college degree? Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://nypost.com/2025/03/15/opinion/real-diversity-should-focus-on-class-not-race/
BREITBART
— Despite court order, Trump deports hundreds of migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/news/despite-court-order-trump-deports-hundreds-of-migrants/
DAILY SIGNAL
— 5 Reasons Why We’re Finally Seeing Democrats Implode
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/16/5-reasons-why-were-finally-seeing-democrats-implode/
DAILY WIRE
— ‘These Are The Monsters’: Trump Admin Deported Over 250 Gang Members To El Salvador
https://www.dailywire.com/news/these-are-the-monsters-trump-admin-deported-over-250-gang-members-to-el-salvador
FOX NEWS
— Sanctuary city lawyers plot to help illegal migrants evade ICE in exposed group email
https://www.foxnews.com/us/sanctuary-city-lawyers-plot-help-illegal-migrants-evade-ice-exposed-group-email
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump says he’s buying ‘brand new’ Tesla to support Musk (COMMENT: In how much danger are Tesla owners in in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-says-buying-brand-tesla-115136885.html
— Trump buys Tesla to ‘make a statement’ about Musk backlash (COMMENT: In how much danger are Tesla owners in in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-buys-tesla-statement-musk-193238152.html
REUTERS
— India’s Modi says Trump has ‘clear roadmap’ in second term
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-modi-says-trump-has-clear-roadmap-second-term-2025-03-17/
MSN
— Boston Mayor Stands By $650,000 Legal Bill To Prepare For Sanctuary City Congressional Hearing
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/boston-mayor-stands-by-650-000-legal-bill-to-prepare-for-sanctuary-city-congressional-hearing/ar-AA1AMyyn
— Musk’s ‘hostile takeover’ of Social Security Administration
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/elon-musks-hostile-takeover-of-social-security-administration-detailed-by-insider/ar-AA1ABW6G
— White Privilege Satire ‘Slanted’ Take Top Awards at SXSW
https://www.msn.com/en-my/movies/news/white-privilege-satire-slanted-and-addiction-industry-expos%C3%A9-shuffle-take-top-awards-at-sxsw/ar-AA1AOmSe
(FROM THE ARTICLE: She immediately enjoys the perks of white privilege, but isn’t at all prepared for the downsides.)
— ‘Slanted’ Review: Extreme Makeover Satire Critiques Lopsided Beauty Standards Through Asian Eyes (COMMENT: All during my lifetime, everyone around me came under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to give ever-increasing preference to those who were minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/reviews/slanted-review-extreme-makeover-satire-critiques-lopsided-beauty-standards-through-asian-eyes/ar-AA1AXixe
(FROM THE ARTICLE: From the moment 8-year-old Joan arrives in the U.S. (played by Kristen Cui at that point), she’s confronted with signs of what the locals consider to be desirable: billboards with blond, bikini-clad models; Norman Rockwell-like propaganda art on the classroom walls; and a freckle-faced bully who makes fun of her eyes. Flash-forward nine years, and Joan (now played by a grad school-aged actor) is bleaching her hair and doctoring her selfies with the Ethnos app (designed to make people of color look white). It feels edgy to call out such self-effacing, approval-chasing behavior at a time when appearance-altering practices are widespread, and potentially controversial to suggest that what Joan wants most is to be white.)
— Why is this American family requesting asylum in Canada? An Illinois family flees the Trump regime
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/usa-why-is-this-american-family-requesting-asylum-in-canada/ss-AA1AN72r
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On March 4, the Berg family, from Illinois, crossed the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, to request asylum in Canada. Parents Ted and Caitlin, both veterans, say they’ve felt unsafe in their home country since Donald Trump returned to the White House. They took their children out of school the day after the presidential inauguration, fearing for their mental health.)
NEW YORK TIMES
— Conservatives’ Tesla Rescue Mission Has Its Work Cut Out. Trump rallied support for Elon Musk’s car company, but there may not be enough conservatives willing to buy electric cars to make up for the Democrats who now shun Teslas. (COMMENT: In how much danger are Tesla owners in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/business/elon-musk-trump-tesla-conservatives.html
WASHINGTON POST
— As Musk’s business empire falters, Trump summons a wave of conservative support. Amid calls for Musk to step back from the U.S. DOGE Service, Trump is offering a White House lifeline to his biggest donor — further entwining their fates. (COMMENT: To help elect a candidate is to entwine your fate with that candidate. Far too many candidates who I have helped elect have disappointed me. Far too many blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats. Far too many have dumped more and more and more planks in the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/16/elon-musk-tesla-trump-sales-republicans/
NBC PALM SPRINGS
— ‘Pretty Privilege’ Impacts Hiring, Promotions, and Social Treatment (COMMENT: Employers, voters, and everyone else prefer men who are handsome and women who are attractive.)
https://www.nbcpalmsprings.com/therogginreport/2025/03/16/survey-reveals-pretty-privilege-impacts-hiring-promotions-and-social-treatment
TIMES TRIBUNE
— Trump’s executive orders are nothing new. Neither are the court challenges.
https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/2025/03/17/editorial-trumps-executive-orders-are-nothing-new-neither-are-the-court-challenges/
NEWS NATION NOW
— Chicago neighborhood calms after ICE raids fail to materialize
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/chicago-neighborhood-calms-after-ice-raids-fail-to-materialize/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Can Trump Ban Birthright Citizenship?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/can-trump-ban-birthright-citizenship-law-history-policy-1e77ccd7
— CEOs Face More Accountability When a Board Member Has Military Experience (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who have had the greatest success in getting veterans to take adverse actions against me. Of course, they stress that I avoided the Vietnam War draft.)
https://www.wsj.com/business/military-veteran-board-members-fire-ceo-c9135073
FAST COMPANY
— Tesla owners are disguising their cars with fake badges as a form of resistance. When anti-Elon bumper stickers aren’t enough. (COMMENT: In how much danger are Tesla owners in in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91294552/tesla-owners-are-disguising-their-cars-with-fake-badges-as-a-form-of-resistance
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— Talk About Privilege at Work (COMMENT: All during my lifetime, everyone around me came under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to give ever-increasing preference to those who were minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.)
https://hbr.org/2021/08/talk-about-privilege-at-work
CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH
— The Continuing Power of White Preferences in Employment (COMMENT: All during my lifetime, everyone around me came under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to give ever-increasing preference to those who were minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.)
https://cepr.net/publications/the-continuing-power-of-white-preferences-in-employment/
FREE PRESS
— Pritzker Wants to Lead the Trump Resistance. But Is He Turning His Back on DEI? (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that some Democrat and RINO leaders will put their promotion of DEI under the table and off the books. I should write about those Democrat and RINO leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton who have bragged the most about their DEI promotion, that is, who have bragged the most about their promotion of race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.)
https://www.thefp.com/p/jb-pritzker-dei-donald-trump-pritzker-family-foundation-website
(FROM THE ARTICLE: According to a Free Press review of internet archive records, Pritzker’s own family nonprofit appears to have scrubbed a slew of DEI language from its website on March 11. The Pritzker Family Foundation eliminated the phrase justice and equity from its mission statement and jettisoned the word inequities to describe its focus on social justice. The group also removed the word equitable from the statement that said the group had a “deep desire to create more just and equitable outcomes.” And the foundation removed an entire sentence from its website that read: “Learn more about our ongoing efforts to apply a lens of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) to our grantmaking here,” which linked to a downloadable foundation document detailing its “ongoing journey” to embrace DEI. This document can no longer be found on the foundation’s site, but was located by The Free Press on the internet archive.)
FULCRUM
— Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, the more of the following that Republicans are, the more that they should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI: conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://thefulcrum.us/inclusion-diversity/trump-dei-executive-order
DIVERSE EDUCATION
— The Weaponry of Whiteness, Entitlement, and Privilege (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who promote Affirmative Action and DEI the most, that is, my critics/opponents who promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination the most. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.)
https://www.diverseeducation.com/demographics/african-american/article/15106980/the-weaponry-of-whiteness-entitlement-and-privilege
LSE
— The many shapes of religious privilege in the workplace (COMMENT: When I was young, most of those around me were Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL). But as I grew older, ever-increasingly, fewer and fewer and fewer of those around me were Protestant, let alone let alone MSL.)
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2022/03/24/the-many-shapes-of-religious-privilege-in-the-workplace/
INDEPENDENT
— ‘I assume I’ll be driven out the country’: Workers fear Trump is leading a purge of LGBTQ+ federal employees (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrat and RINO leaders get rid of those like me who do not promote LGBTQ.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/assume-ll-driven-country-workers-202837832.html
March 16, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump invokes wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to speed up deportations (COMMENT: Constructively, many countries have declared war on America. Democrat leaders not only side with those countries, they glorify and praise those countries.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-invokes-wartime-alien-enemies-act-1798-declare-invasion-gangs-speed-deportations/16028956/
NBC5
— US plans to deport about 300 alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/us-plans-to-deport-about-300-alleged-venezuelan-gang-members-to-el-salvador/3698808/
— Republican legislation seeks to ban Chinese nationals from studying in the US
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/republican-legislation-seeks-to-ban-chinese-nationals-from-studying-in-the-us/3698682/
CBS2
— Trump’s use of wartime act to deport immigrants will end up before Supreme Court soon
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/donald-trump-alien-enemies-act-supreme-court-legal-analyst/
WGN9
— Trump signs order to gut staff at Voice of America and other US-funded media organizations
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/ap-politics/ap-trump-signs-order-to-cut-staff-at-voice-of-america-and-other-us-funded-media-organizations/
FOX32
— Judge blocks Trump’s use of 1798 law to deport Venezuelan migrants
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-alien-enemies-act-1798
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— The Alien Enemies Act: What to know about a 1798 law that Donald Trump has invoked for deportations
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/15/alien-enemies-act/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump invokes 18th century law to speed deportations, judge stalls it hours later
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/03/15/trump-invokes-18th-century-law-to-declare-invasion-by-gangs-and-speed-deportations
RIVER BENDER
— Democratic Party of Illinois Announces Electoral Program for Municipal Races Across the State
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/democratic-party-of-illinois-announces-electoral-program-for-municipal-races-across-the-state-80617.cfm
SOUTHERN
— USPS agrees to work with DOGE on reform, planning to cut 10,000 workers (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee.)
https://thesouthern.com/news/usps-agrees-to-work-with-doge-on-reform-planning-to-cut-10-000-workers/article_26448728-4af0-56fa-b536-772848cd8fc3.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump signs order to gut staff at Voice of America and other US-funded media organizations
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-signs-order-to-cut-staff-at-voice-of-america-and-other-us-funded-media-organizations/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Federal judge blocks Trump’s plan to target ‘alien enemies’ for deportation
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-15/federal-judge-blocks-trumps-plan-to-target-alien-enemies-for-deportation
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— As Chicago Targeted By ICE, City Council’s Immigration Committee Hasn’t Met In 8 Months
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/14/as-chicago-targeted-by-ice-city-councils-immigration-committee-hasnt-met-in-8-months/
NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY PUBLIC TELEVISION
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, ever-increasingly, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.nctv17.org/spotlight/peoples-resource-center-helps-neighbor-to-neighbor/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee. If Gingrich had formed a team to reform GAO, I would have volunteered to be a member of the team. I would have stressed a) that I had worked for GAO since 1980 and the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in1981, d) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997, and e) that I earned an MBA in 1976, a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and a master’s degree in finance in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is/was your employers’ top priority? I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, IRS 1971-1980, and Post Office 1966-1969. Their top priority was hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. To achieve the aforesaid, they ever-increasingly a) lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards and b) used the extreme subjectivity in their personnel policies a) to give preference to their employees who were the aforesaid and b) to waste the careers of and to get rid of their employees who were not the aforesaid. The aforesaid ever-increasing rendered worthless a) my three job-related master’s degrees, b) my six job-related professional certifications, and c) my jo-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents want illegals because illegals take bad jobs. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I took were bad jobs that they would never have stooped to take. What do you say to my critics/opponents? Will illegals take the bad jobs that I took doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, working on an automotive assembly line, selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances, pumping more gasoline, collecting delinquent federal taxes, and auditing federal agencies? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What motivated you to pursue college? My father frequently decried his not having a college degree. He was discouraged from pursuing college because he had type 1 diabetes from childhood. He was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. Neither of my parents attended college. My mother never attended high school. If I was in high school today, because of my terrible demographics, I question if I could find enough motivation to pursue college. Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly give more preference to those who are minority, female, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— LaHood Comments on Extension of Covid Fraud Penalties
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/15/lahood-comments-on-extension-of-covid-fraud-penalties/
— Inappropriate Behavior Charges Traded by Nunda Township Road Commissioner Mike Lesperance and His Challenger Rob Parrish
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/15/nunda-township-road-commissioner-mike-leverance-reports-on-lawsuit-against-challenger-rob-parrish/
— Schakowsky Attends Another Demonstration
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/15/schakowsky-attends-another-demonstration/
— Vocal Opponent of McHenry Mayor Wayne Jett
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/15/vocal-opponent-of-mchenry-mayor-wayne-jett/
— Dick Durbin Votes to Allow Vote on Continuing Resolution
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/14/dick-durbin-votes-to-allow-vote-on-continuing-resolution/
— Chicago Tribune Cartoonist Again Demonstrates His Animus toward Donald Trump
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/14/chicago-tribune-cartoonist-again-demonstrates-his-animus-toward-donald-trump/
— Early Voting Starts Monday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/14/early-voting-starts-monday/
— Kane County GOP Attacks Sales Tax Hike Referendum
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/14/kane-county-gop-attacks-sales-tax-hike-referendum/
— Cary Mayor Mark Kownick Holds Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/14/cary-mayor-mark-kownick-holds-fundraiser/
— Schakowsky’s Criticism of Republican Budget Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/14/schakowskys-criticism-of-republican-budget-bill/
— What’s a Shell Bill?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/14/whats-a-shell-bill/
— Feds Arrest Teacher for Child Porn
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/13/feds-arrest-teacher-for-child-porn/
— Algonquin Township Supervisor Funk Finks Out, Shows Vindictiveness
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/13/funk-finks-out-shows-vindictiveness/
— McHenry County Assistant Transportation Director Scott Hennings Testifies Against Giving Chicago Total Control of RTA
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/13/mchenry-county-assistant-transportation-director-scott-henning-testifies-against-giving-chicago-total-control-of-rta/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— USPS strikes deal with Elon Musk’s DOGE team for reform help as agency agrees to cut 10K workers (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/usps-strikes-deal-with-elon-musk-s-doge-team-for-reform-help/ar-AA1ASThy
AMERICAN WIRE NEWS
— Racist Jasmine Crockett argues we need illegals to pick our food and clean our hotels (COMMENT: My critics/opponents want illegals because illegals take bad jobs. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I took were bad jobs that they would never have stooped to take. What do you say to my critics/opponents? Will illegals take the jobs that I took doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, working on an automotive assembly line, selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances, pumping more gasoline, collecting delinquent federal taxes, and auditing federal agencies?)
https://americanwirenews.com/racist-jasmine-crockett-argues-we-need-illegals-to-pick-our-food-and-clean-our-hotels/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Signs Order to Dismantle 8 Federal Agencies, Including VOA Parent Entity
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-signs-order-to-dismantle-8-federal-agencies-including-voa-parent-entity-5826100
— Trump Revokes 19 Biden-Era Executive Actions in 2nd Round of Roll Backs. The president on his first day of office rescinded nearly 80 executive orders and memoranda issued by President Joe Biden.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-revokes-19-biden-era-executive-actions-in-2nd-round-of-roll-backs-5826148
PJ MEDIA
— Federal Judge Tells Trump He Can’t Use the Law to Deport Illegals
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/15/federal-judge-tells-trump-he-cant-use-the-law-to-deport-illegal-n4937960
— Antisemitism in Universities Is Uncivil and Incompatible with Sound Education
https://pjmedia.com/philip-carl-salzman/2025/03/14/anti-semitism-in-universities-is-uncivil-and-incompatible-with-sound-education-n4937926
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Voice of America staff put on leave, Trump ally says agency ‘not salvageable’ (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee.)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-signs-order-gut-voice-america-other-agencies-2025-03-15/
MSN
— America’s postmaster general knew that sooner or later, DOGE would come calling at the US Postal Service. So Louis DeJoy decided to have DOGE work with him. (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/can-elon-musk-save-the-post-office-the-us-postmaster-general-thinks-so/ar-AA1AVw9V
CBS NEWS
— Venezuelan immigrants sue Trump over order to invoke wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuelan-immigrants-sue-trump-over-order-invoking-wartime-alien-enemies-act-of-1798/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Judge Orders Halt on Deportations of Venezuelans Under Wartime Law
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/15/us/trump-news
— Pew surveys show boys tend to feel discouraged in the classroom, and are less likely than girls to pursue college. (COMMENT: What motivated you to pursue college? My father frequently decried his not having a college degree. He was discouraged from pursuing college because he had type 1 diabetes from childhood. He was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. Neither of my parents attended college. My mother never attended high school. If I was in high school today, because of my terrible demographics, I question if I could find enough motivation to pursue college. Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly give more preference to those who are minority, female, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/upshot/teenagers-school-girls-boys.html
— Can Trump and Musk Convince More Conservatives to Buy Teslas?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/business/elon-musk-trump-tesla-conservatives.html
— How Trump’s Hard-Line Tactics Are Driving Down (ILLEGAL) Migration
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/americas/mexico-trump-migration.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, governments exist a) to take money from those who have more money and b) to give that money to those who have less money.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-16/doge-elon-musk-donald-trump-government-layoffs
USA TODAY
— Torching Teslas? Climate-loving liberals driven crazy by Trump harm their cause. Liberals across the country are attacking a bunch of electric vehicles and infrastructure – once a symbol of Democrats’ climate-saving agenda. Essentially, they are sabotaging their own cause.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/03/14/trump-musk-tesla-protests-ev-violence/82330639007/
BOSTON HERALD
— Transgender Americans weigh leaving US over Trump’s policies. Some already have.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/03/15/transgender-americans-leaving/amp/
NEW YORK SUN
— First-in-the-Nation Reparations Program Runs Into Financial Problems, Halts Payouts. In Evanston, Illinois, lagging recreational pot sales – which are used to fund the city’s disbursements to African Americans – have been lagging below projections.
https://www.nysun.com/article/first-in-the-nation-reparations-program-runs-into-financial-problems-halts-payouts
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Attacks Political Enemies in Speech at Justice Department. President Trump vowed to restore “fair, equal, and impartial justice” to the U.S. in his speech at the Department of Justice.
https://www.wsj.com/video/trump-attacks-political-enemies-in-speech-at-justice-department/56264406-A6C3-4787-B6BB-B510A0E311FA
WEEK
— J.D. Vance: Trump’s attack dog (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents and the attack dogs who they currently use against me and have used against me in the past. They include present and past members of the Milton Township Republican Organization, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, and Wheaton Chamber of Commerce members.)
https://theweek.com/politics/j-d-vance-trumps-attack-dog
NPR
— A tale of two states: Florida and Illinois’s responses to the Trump administration
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5324551/a-tale-of-two-states-florida-and-illinoiss-responses-to-the-trump-administration
MEDIAITE
— Homan: I’m Deporting Illegals Biden Tried to Turn Into Voters
https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/future-democratic-voters-trump-border-czar-tells-stephen-a-smith-theyre-deporting-the-illegals-biden-was-changing-census-to-count/
CBC
— Fans at BMO Field boo U.S. anthem prior to Toronto FC’s home opener against Chicago. Steady booing was followed by enthusiastic rendition of O Canada.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/mls/bmo-field-fans-boo-us-anthem-tfc-home-opener-1.7484851
March 15, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— ‘Scum,’ ‘crooked’ elections and ‘corrupt’ media. What Donald Trump said inside the Justice Department.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/14/what-trump-said-inside-the-justice-department/
— University of Chicago under investigation as part of Trump’s anti-DEI initiative (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/14/universities-investigated-for-dei/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Dems split on bill to avert government shutdown
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/03/14/illinois-democrats-shutdown-federal-budget-vote-reaction-durbin-duckworth-casten
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrat leaders get Black faith leaders to threaten corporations if they do not restore DEI. Democrat and RINO corporations use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://chicagodefender.com/black-faith-leaders-to-corporations-restore-dei-or-lose-our-business/
ABC7
— Appeals court allows Trump to enact anti-DEI executive orders
https://abc7chicago.com/post/appeals-court-lifts-blocks-trumps-orders-restricting-diversity-equity-inclusion-programs/16024964/
NBC5
— Appeals court lifts blocks on Trump’s orders restricting DEI programs (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/appeals-court-lifts-blocks-on-trumps-orders-restricting-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-programs/3698406/
CBS2
— Chicago area food pantries, farmers say federal funding cuts causing ‘sense of panic’ (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, more and more and more will be dependent on food pantries.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-food-pantries-farmers-federal-funding-cuts-panic/
FOX32
— Chicago university under investigation in Trump’s anti-DEI campaign (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-university-under-investigation-trumps-anti-dei-campaign
— Trump Tower protests: 150 Mahmoud Khalil supporters storm Midtown building; 90+ arrested (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Mahmoud Khalil and what he does.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/students-storm-trump-tower-support
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSIONESS
— Trump administration targets University of Chicago over DEI (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/uchicago-investigated-trump-administration
WBEZ
— Trump takes aim at Chicago again — this time with a federal task force on antisemitism (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Mahmoud Khalil and what he does.)
https://www.wbez.org/city-hall/2025/03/14/federal-task-force-antisemitism-schools-campus-chicago-brandon-johnson-bondi-justice-department
— Trans people facing gender-affirming care bans flee to Illinois, shield law states (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.)
https://www.wbez.org/lgbtq/2025/03/14/trans-people-facing-gender-affirming-care-bans-flee-to-illinois-shield-law-states
STATELINE
— Illinois GOP introduce bills to reduce property taxes and address migration issues
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-republicans-propose-property-tax-bills/
RIVER BENDER
— Pritzker, Stratton, Statements On Government Funding Bill In Congress (COMMENT: What about statements in opposition?)
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/pritzker-stratton-statements-on-government-funding-bill-in-congress-80607.cfm
WJBC
— In remarks to teachers union, Pritzker lashes out at Trump’s education cuts (COMMENT: Few objected to Gingrich’s dramatic GAO budget cuts. My Democrat GAO superiors used those cuts along with the following to waste my career and to get rid of me: Affirmative Action, DEI, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and the veterans preference.)
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/03/14/in-remarks-to-teachers-union-pritzker-lashes-out-at-trumps-education-cuts/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump reclaims a DOJ reshaped in his wake (COMMENT: Biden shaped his DOJ. All presidents shape their DOJs. The DOJ that Bush shaped 2000-2008 sided with GAO in Diersen v. GAO. My critics/opponents have always stressed that. To side with GAO is promote Affirmative Action, DEI, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and the veterans’ preference.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-14/trump-reclaims-a-justice-department-reshaped-in-his-wake
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Most disapprove of Trump’s approach to Ukraine, Russia
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/most-disapprove-of-trumps-approach-to-ukraine-russia-survey/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump calls European Union ‘nasty’ for its treatment of American businesses
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-calls-european-union-nasty-for-its-treatment-of-american-businesses
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-268/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMERICAN THINKER
— Illegals Working for Congress?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/illegals_working_for_congress.html
BREITBART
— Trump Administration to Modernize IRS, Make Agency ‘Most Efficient and Effective’ for Taxpayers (COMMENT: Democrat IRS and GAO leaders do not want Republicans to audit IRS. They certainly did not want me to audit IRS. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of that almost 18 years that I worked for GAO 1980-1997. They did that even though I had a) worked for IRS for almost 9 years 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, b) earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a master/s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a master’s degree in finance from IIT in 1997, c) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981, and e) earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/14/trump-admin-to-modernize-irs-make-agency-most-efficient-and-effective-for-taxpayers/
— Actor John Cusack Compares Trump Buying a Tesla to Hitler, Calls Musk ‘Only Immigrant I Wanted Deported’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/03/14/actor-john-cusack-compares-trump-buying-a-tesla-to-hitler-calls-musk-only-immigrant-i-wanted-deported/
— Trump touts law-and-order vision, sounds off on past grievances with DOJ, FBI
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-touts-law-and-order-vision-sounds-off-on-past-grievances-with-doj-fbi/
FOX NEWS
— Trump rallies support for ‘tough on crime’ agenda at DOJ visit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J1u244Kv_8
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Vance booed by Kennedy Center crowd in wake of Trump takeover
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/14/vice-president-jd-vance-booed-kennedy-center-crowd-wake-trump/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Pentagon Schools Instruct Use of Minecraft to Promote DEI Trojan Horse (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/14/pentagon-schools-instruct-use-minecraft-promote-dei-trojan-horse/
FEDERALIST SOCIETY
— FOID Cards and the Second Amendment at the Illinois Supreme Court
https://fedsoc.org/scdw/foid-cards-and-the-second-amendment-at-the-illinois-supreme-court
FOX NEWS
— Reparations fight hits Congress as GOP looks to defund new DC task force. DC is expected to form a slavery reparations task force this year.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reparations-fight-hits-congress-gop-looks-defund-new-dc-task-force
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Appeals court allows Trump administration to enforce ban on DEI programs, for now (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/appeals-court-allows-trump-administration-enforce-ban-dei-programs-now-rcna196551
REUTERS
— Countries considered for Trump’s potential new travel ban (COMMENT: What do say to countries a) that despise/hate America and/or b) that illegally send their citizens into American and/or illegally keep their citizens in America to destroy America?)
https://www.reuters.com/world/countries-considered-trumps-potential-new-travel-ban-2025-03-15/
MSN
— ‘Chilling’: NYT reveals list of words banned by Trump’s ‘anti-woke’ initiatives
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/chilling-nyt-reveals-list-of-words-banned-by-trump-s-anti-woke-initiatives/ar-AA1AvE2k
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/us/politics/trump-order-voice-of-america.html
— Appeals Court Lets Trump’s DEI Crackdown Proceed (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-dei-court-ruling.html
— Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries. A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States. (COMMENT: Based on their actions, far too many who come to America despise/hate Americans who are Jewish, conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. All those who come to America illegally and/or stay in America illegally a) want/need/demand massive government assistance, b) lack education and/or job skills, and/or have severe financial, health, and/or other problems.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-travel-ban.html
— Trump Administration Expels South Africa’s Ambassador to the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had lashed out on social media over comments critical of President Trump that the ambassador had made to a think tank in Johannesburg.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/south-africa-ambassador-marco-rubio.html
— Trump Tries to Use White South Africans as Cautionary Tale. The president and his allies accuse South Africa of discriminating against and killing white people, and warn that it could happen in America if attempts to promote diversity aren’t stopped. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/world/africa/south-africa-whites-trump.html
USA TODAY
— Trump talks tough on antisemitism while Musk reposts vile Hitler excuse
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/03/15/elon-musk-hitler-trump-antisemitism/82408339007/
BLOOMBERG
— A Fair Workplace? Not Everywhere. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO employers do not treat their employees who are the following fairly: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. The more of the aforesaid that their employees are, the more unfairly that Democrat and RINO employers treat them.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1999-04-26/a-fair-workplace-not-everywhere
STARS & STRIPES
— ‘What’s happening to veterans is not right’: Thousands attend rally on National Mall to protest cuts to jobs, services (COMMENT: During all the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they always protected their Democrat employees who were veterans from the adverse impacts of Republican budget cuts.)
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-03-14/veterans-rally-national-mall-17143611.html
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER
— What is it like to argue before the Supreme Court? (COMMENT: I argued Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange before the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, in 1996. SEE: https://casetext.com/case/diersen-v-chicago-car-exchange and https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-7th-circuit/1385001.html I should write about the material factual errors in the decision. I argued Diersen v. GAO before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 2000-2005. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf I should write about the material factual errors in the decision.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhxlH18iHg
POLITICO
— Trump calls for imprisoning his opponents in bellicose speech at Justice Department. For more than an hour, he delivered an insult-laden speech that shattered the traditional notion of DOJ independence. (COMMENT: Biden shaped his DOJ. All presidents shape their DOJs. The DOJ that Bush shaped 2000-2008 sided with GAO in Diersen v. GAO. My critics/opponents have always stressed that. To side with GAO is promote Affirmative Action, DEI, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and the veterans preference.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/14/trump-doj-speech-prison-opponents-00231438
March 13, 2025
Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media serves as a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders say “ICE touts immigration arrests, others warn of Congress approving $10B ‘blank check’ for enforcement.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-touts-immigration-arrests-advocates-warn-congress-approving-10b-blank-check-future-enforcement/16014216/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders say “IL Republicans propose legislation to tackle crime.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1607218
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders say “Chicago civil rights groups call for release of Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian green card holder who helped lead Columbia encampment.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/12/hundreds-protest-arrest-of-palestinian-green-card-holder-who-helped-lead-columbia-encampment/
— Democrat leaders say “Rosie O’Donnell becomes latest comedian to leave the US after Trump’s reelection.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/12/rosie-odonnell-leaves-us-trump/
— Democrat leaders say “What drove population growth in the Chicago area last year.” Massive illegal immigration drove population grow in the Chicago area last year.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/13/daywatch-what-drove-population-growth-in-the-chicago-area-last-year/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders crow that their massive invasion of illegals drove population growth in the Chicago area last year
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/12/chicago-cook-county-census/
— Democrat leaders acknowledge that “Chicagoans are not as progressive as some think.” To be progressive is to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-married people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/13/opinion-chicago-not-progressive-moderate-politics/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders say “Europe, Canada retaliate against Trump’s tariffs with Illinois likely to take hit. The taxes will also hit Illinois, the No. 1 U.S. producer of soybeans, which are also on the tariff list.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/03/12/canada-eu-retaliate-beef-poultry-soybean-trump-steel-aluminum-tariffs
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly spin everything that Trump says and does against him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/how-trumps-education-plans-might-affect-illinois-schools
— Democrat leaders say “Illinois considers tracking how much you drive — and making you pay by the mile. Under proposed legislation, Illinois would explore the viability of reducing reliance on the state’s gas tax by putting in place a “road usage charge,” essentially a tax on the number of miles driven.” (COMMENT: I drive very few miles because I spend 15+ hours a day putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/03/12/road-usage-charge-legislation-motor-fuel-tax-replacement
— Democrat leaders will drive the economy down and blame it on Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/12/president-trump-maga-voters-economy-tariffs-prices-inflation-stock-market-se-cupp
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders say “Chicago companies are getting quiet on DEI — but staying competitive means hiring diverse talent. (COMMENT: Those who are diverse are minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries. Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that diverse employees are more talented than non-diverse employees. I am non-diverse.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/dei-necessary-competitiveness-op-ed
— Democrat leaders say “Illinois university leaders show united front as Trump threats loom.” (COMMENT: Democrats run Illinois universities. Democrats promote DEI. From which Illinois universities did you earn degrees from? I earned degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT. I oppose DEI, that is, I oppose race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/illinois-university-leaders-show-united-front-amid-uncertainty
— Democrat leaders say “The Chicago metro area and Cook County are growing again.” (COMMENT: Of course, that is because of massive illegal immigration.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chicago-region-and-cook-county-growth-path-census
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders say “Trump admin’s attacks on universities hit home in Illinois. Northwestern is one of 60 colleges and universities to be warned this week: rein in pro-Palestinian protests or suffer the consequences.”
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/03/12/trump-admins-attacks-on-universities-hit-home-in-illinois
— Democrat leaders say “How chaos at the Education Department affects Illinois schools. Trump is moving to cut the staff by half and dismantle the department. He’s also going after DEI in higher education and funding for research.”
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/02/10/how-trumps-education-plans-might-affect-illinois-schools
— Democrats say “Trump slashes environmental programs in Chicago that protect poor communities.”
https://www.wbez.org/environment/2025/03/13/epa-environmental-justice-health-trump
COURIER & PRESS
— Democrat leaders say “Trump cuts funds for Tri-State Food Bank to bring food directly from farmers to pantry.” (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, dependency on food pantries will ever-increasingly increase.)
https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/local/2025/03/12/tri-state-food-bank-hit-hard-by-trump-administration-grant-cuts/82321330007/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting faith leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-12/faith-leaders-push-back-against-trump-cuts-and-what-they-see-as-erosion-of-democracy
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders say that a new IRS program, Direct File, makes tax filing free and more efficient, but that Musk and DOGE may get rid of it anyway. (COMMENT: If you are a federal employee, and especially if you are an IRS employee, unofficially, if not officially, IRS audits all your returns. I was a federal employee 1966-1969 and 1971-1997 and I was an IRS employee 1971-1980. I started deducting my graduate business and accounting courses in 1972 and IRS had no problems with those deductions. But notwithstanding that, to get rid of me because I had complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my education deductions in 1978. They outrageously, disgustingly, and falsely argued that the courses I deducted did not relate to my job duties, did not help maintain or improve my job skills, were taken by me to get a job in the private sector, and qualified me for a new trade or business. They ignored my IRS position descriptions, my graduate school applications, and that my IRS employee manual encouraged me to take those courses. The aforesaid is a big example of how the Democrats who run the federal government can and do use IRS to harm Republicans.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-a-government-program-made-tax-filing-free-and-more-efficient-musk-and-doge-may-get-rid-of-it-anyway/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-473/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-266/
— Treasurer Frerichs’ home targeted again by late-night protesters
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/12/treasurer-frerichs-home-targeted-again-by-late-night-protesters/
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-472/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Lawmakers are trying to sweeten government pensions yet again. Find out what that will cost you. (COMMENT: Are you in line to get a pension? Do you get a pension? I get a Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension. According to my critics/opponents, it is much too sweet. But I paid 7% of my federal salary into CSRS for almost 30 years. Because my Democrat superiors wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, into today’s dollars, my CSRS pension is only 44% of what my salary was in 1997 and less than what my salary was in 1972.)
https://wirepoints.org/lawmakers-are-trying-to-sweeten-government-pensions-yet-again-find-out-what-that-will-cost-you-join-wirepoints-for-a-facebook-live-event-on-illinois-pension-crisis-on-march-13th/
JOHN BIVER
— Why Success in Business Does Not Translate into Success in Politics
https://johnbiver.com/why-success-in-business-does-not-translate-into-success-in-politics/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Foreign-born population highest since 1890 — shocking new figures show how much Biden changed America. (COMMENT: The less time that you, your parents, and the rest of your ancestors have been in America, the less money that you will work for. If there had been as many foreign-born in America when I was young, they would have had the jobs that I had. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. But nevertheless, those jobs enabled me to a) buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) pay for my college expenses when I was 18-31, c) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, and c) get married when I was 29.)
https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/opinion/foreign-born-highest-since-1890-shock-new-figures-show-how-much-biden-changed-america/
BREITBART
— Illegal Migrants Cost Florida $660 Million in Unpaid Hospital Bills (COMMENT: How much money have the illegals in America, Illinois, and your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct cost so far?)
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/12/report-illegal-migrants-cost-florida-660-million-in-unpaid-hospital-bills/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders say “Trump’s economic troubles put Republicans on the defensive.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-economic-troubles-republicans-defensive-rcna196101
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders say “Why the White House Car Show Mattered to Musk. A lot has changed since former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. snubbed Elon Musk at an event in 2021.” (COMMENT: Who has snubbed you at events and why? I should write about my powerful critics/opponents who have snubbed me at events the most often. I would focus Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, and Wheaton Chamber of Commerce events. I would focus on press conferences and fundraisers.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/politics/trump-tesla-elon-musk-white-house.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly spin everything that Trump says and does against him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/12/trump-sanctuary-cities-immigration-deportations/
— Democrat leaders say “Washington braces for a government shutdown — as DOGE cuts continue. The White House would have broad power to decide what agencies stay open if funding lapses.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/13/government-shutdown-trump-doge-democrats/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders say “New wave of federal layoffs landing hard.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/11/trump-federal-agencies-layoff-plans-march-13/82235201007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— If You Hate America, Why Come Here? Mahmoud Khalil is an extreme example, but many immigrants seem to revile the U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/if-you-hate-america-why-come-here-immigrants-khalil-deportation-add774f1
— Mahmoud Khalil and His Green Card. Terrorist support is cause for revocation, but not unpopular speech.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/mahmoud-khalil-green-card-trump-administration-cuad-columbia-israel-hamas-ecdc4424
— Didn’t Get that Promotion? How to Turn ‘No’ Into Opportunity. Getting passed over in a tough job market stings, but you might have more leverage than you think. (COMMENT: The Democrats who ran GAO would never had promoted me to GS-13 a) if their manager who led their effort to get rid of me (Dave) had not gone on extended sick leave in 1985, and therefore b) the manager who had arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 (Bill) was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me to GS-13 in 1986. But Dave came back in 1987 and b) forced Bill to retire in 1987, b) threw me off audits of IRS in late 1988, c) gave me a very bad job assignment in early 1989, c) gave me unfair performance expectations and appraisal, d) ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance (PFP) in 1989, e) assured that I would never again be assigned to audits of IRS, f) assured that I would forever be ranked in the bottom half of my coworkers for PFP, and g) coordinated the successful efforts to force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. I should write about Dave.)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/didnt-get-that-promotion-how-to-turn-no-into-opportunity-caf0f66f
FORBES
— Democrat leaders stress that a GAO official was pressed on vulnerabilities created by Trump/Musk budget cuts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf75LYRVAIg
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
— Democrat leaders say “Trump vs. The Press It’s time to push back against Donald Trump’s efforts to target, silence, and punish—via lawsuits, access restrictions, and exertions of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulatory authority—press entities that oppose and supposedly harm him or that fail to embrace his narratives.”
https://www.aei.org/technology-and-innovation/trump-vs-the-press/
FED WEEK
— Democrat leaders crow that for the fifth straight year in a row, GAO is ranked the best mid-sized federal agency to work for. The Democrats who run GAO respond to their employees. Virtually all GAO employees are Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Those employees do not want GAO to hire those who are the following and they do want GAO to get rid of their employees who are the following: Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid, and when I was 31 years old in 1980, I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.fedweek.com/federal-managers-daily-report/nasa-gao-again-top-best-places-to-work-rankings-for-large-mid-sized-agencies/
GAO
— Democrat leaders say “On March 11th 2025, GAO Director Chris Currie testified before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability about the pivotal role of DHS in securing the border, strengthening cybersecurity, and preventing violent acts of domestic extremism, among other roles. DHS also has expansive missions and an annual budget of about $60 billion. Oversight remains critically important to ensure effectiveness and efficiency. As of March 2025, GAO has made 146 recommendations in prior reports to DHS that remain open. These recommendations are designed to address the various mission and management challenges such as duplication, overlap, fragmentation, disaster assistance delivery, IT, and financial management.”
https://www.gao.gov/video/testimony-key-areas-dhs-action-and-congressional-oversight
AXIOS
— Democrat leaders say “Trump’s public intervention on behalf of Tesla marks the most extraordinary chapter yet in the partisan war over America’s preeminent electric vehicle brand.” (COMMENT: Will Trump buy a Canadian-built 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus like I did?)
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/13/tesla-trump-white-house-musk
March 12, 2025
Ever-increasing, the mainstream news media serves as a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders say “Trump checks out Teslas at White House as Musk’s auto company stock sinks.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-checks-teslas-white-house-elon-musks-auto-company-stock-sinks/16008302/
— Democrat leaders say “Nearly half of Department of Education workforce to be eliminated.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/department-education-layoffs/16008462/
— Democrat leaders say “US Dept. of Education cuts could profoundly impact schools, students.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI5RApBsoxI
— Democrat leaders say “USDA cuts two programs worth roughly $1B, impacting local schools, food banks and farmers.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/usda-cuts-programs-worth-roughly-1b-impacting-local-schools-farmers-food-banks-including-northern-illinois-bank/16009649/
— Democrat leaders call for boycott of retailers who cut DEI programs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-leaders-inspired-boycott-retailers-cut-dei-programs-encourage-purposeful-local-spending/16008915/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders say “Rally at University of Chicago in support of Columbia University pro-Palestine activist after ICE arrest.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/university-of-chicago-rally-columbia-university-pro-palestinian-activist-mahmoud-khalil/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, more and more and more people rely on food banks.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-area-food-bank-programs-usda-funding/
FOX32
— Democrats say “Illinois Republicans slam Democrats for focusing on ‘bad bills’ amid budget crisis.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-republicans-slam-democrats-bad-bills
— Democrat leaders say “Illinois Republicans slam bills that Democrats are prioritizing.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ix8_GtqXQ
— Democrat leaders say “Durbin calls out Trump, Musk partnership.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMCahOgoiEM
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders say Illinois farmers criticize USDA funding freezes
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/11/farmers-usda-general-assembly/
— Democrat leaders say “Illinois farmers, schools and food banks will lose millions with USDA funding cuts.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2025/03/11/illinois-farmers-schools-food-banks-department-agriculture-cuts-trump
— Democrat leaders say “Chicago needs a new presidentially appointed U.S. Attorney Immediately.” My critics/opponents were overjoyed Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney General Patrick Fitzgerald who sided with the Democrats who ran GAO in Diersen v. GAO.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/12/editorial-us-attorney-chicago-trump/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders say “Some CPS teachers claim REACH evaluation system disproportionately targets Black educators.” (COMMENT: When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and replaced me with my Black subordinate who a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had one professional certification while I had six, and d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/12/cps-teacher-evaluation-biased/
— Democrat leaders say “Access is not a trophy the White House can hand out to its favorite reporters.” (COMMENT: Needless-to-say, I am not a favorite reporter of those who want/demand that I a) glorify and praise them, b) pander to them, c) serve as one of their operatives or dupes, d) cover up their wrong doing, and/or e) give them money.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/28/heidi-stevens-white-house-reporters-access/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/03/12/trans-people-facing-gender-affirming-care-bans-flee-to-illinois-shield-law-states
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders say “DuPage County to pay $11 million to settle lawsuit over detainee’s death in jail.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250311/news/dupage-county-to-pay-11-million-to-settle-lawsuit-over-detainees-death-in-jail/
— Democrat leaders endorse the non-Republican candidates in the Wheaton Warrenville School District 200 race.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250312/endorsements/dist-200-school-board-blatner-ebbesen-hanlon-paver/
— Kevin Coyne: Board’s egregious conduct
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250312/letters-to-the-editor/boards-egregious-conduct/
(FROM THE LETTER: In 20 years of being deeply involved in DuPage County politics, I have never seen elected officials behave as disrespectfully and unprofessionally as the numerous Democratic Board members during the recent hearing on whether or not the board would remove Henry Hyde’s name from our county courthouse. The incredibly insulting idea to cancel the name of the prolific Henry Hyde was bad enough. But to cut off public comment on the proposal, after just 30 minutes, was something none of the many current and former officials in attendance had ever seen before. It was a terrible insult to all of the people who cared deeply about the legacy of Henry Hyde. People came from all over to speak at this hearing. Sadly, the majority of the board did not care to hear them. While these board members try to paint Hyde as a conservative extremist, Hyde’s legacy is not extreme and is very nuanced. Yes, Hyde was pro-life and he sponsored the Hyde Amendment (a bill that both Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy also voted for). Hyde led on the Brady Bill and Family Leave Act. Jesse Jackson Jr. gave remarks at Hyde’s memorial services and pointed to Hyde’s ability to work across the aisle. Hyde was very bipartisan in approach, a concept that is unfortunately lost by politicians today…certainly by the Democratic members of the DuPage County Board. Hyde’s collaborating and inclusive approach to legislating is sorely missed. We should do our best to remember his name and style, not forget it. Hopefully residents learn about what happened at this hearing. It was evident to all in attendance that the Board cared a whole lot more about pandering to their political activists than about good government.)
JOURNAL COURIER
— Democrat leaders say “Federal workers deserve respect, not cruelty.” (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who despise/hate federal employees and federal retirees the most. According to them, federal employees are grossly overpaid and their benefits are far too generous, and for federal retirees, their pensions and health insurance benefits are far too generous. I was a despised/hated federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a despised/hated federal retiree for more than 27 years. While I was a federal employee, my salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year in today’s dollars. My Civil Service Retirement System pension is $66,780/year. The federal government pays 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums. In my defense, while I was a federal employee, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.)
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/article/federal-workers-deserve-respect-not-cruelty-20210388.php
STATELINE
— Democrat leaders say “Trump’s USDA cuts hurt Illinois farmers and food-insecure communities.”
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-farmers-trump-usda-cuts/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders say “Trump cuts vital Illinois food programs, impacting farmers and food banks.”
https://foxillinois.com/news/local/trump-cuts-vital-illinois-food-programs-impacting-farmers-and-food-banks
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders say “Stocks slump as worry grows over Trump tariffs and a possible recession.” How far will Democrat leaders drive stocks down?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-11/stocks-slump-as-worry-grows-over-trump-tariffs-and-a-possible-recession
— Trump administration slams brakes on government’s adoption of electric vehicles (COMMENT: I just bought a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV. Please let me know if you share my interest in the car.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-12/trump-administration-slams-brakes-on-governments-adoption-of-electric-vehicles
— Democrat leaders say “Trump’s policies are destabilizing mental health care for veterans.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-12/trumps-policies-are-destabilizing-mental-health-care-for-veterans-sources-say
25 NEWS NOW
— Democrat leaders push more pot in Pekin
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/03/12/new-cannabis-dispensary-coming-pekin/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders have always backed Democrat candidates in non-partisan elections.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/partisan-politics-infiltrating-non-partisan-local-illinois-elections/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/11/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-265/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Democrats Rally Support for Their Terrorist Hamas Campus Cheerleader
https://johnkassnews.com/democrats-rally-support-for-their-hamas-campus-cheerleader/
WIREPOINTS
— Chicago continues to be the nation’s bloodiest city when it comes to the sheer number of homicides
https://wirepoints.org/chicago-continues-to-be-the-nations-bloodiest-city-when-it-comes-to-sheer-number-of-homicides-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Have you been a candidate? Have you been primaried? In 1999, I was the Assistant Precinct Committeeman (PC) for the DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 9 in Wheaton. The PC for that precinct resigned and endorsed me to me to be appointed to fill the vacancy, and that happened in December of 1999. But for the 2000 election, my Milton Township Republican Organization critics/opponents recruited a female registered Republican voter in my precinct to run against me. I won because both Peter Roskam and Randy Hultgren endorsed me in writing. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Are/were you bureaucratic bloat? To deal with Gingrich-led Republican budget cuts in the 1990s, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997. They did not do that to my coworkers who were also eligible to retire, but who were Democrat, minority, female, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I had more work experience, more education, and/or more professional certifications than all my coworkers who my Democrat GAO superiors did not force to retire. I was the only one in the office who had a professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I should write about my critics/opponents who despise/hate federal employees and federal retirees the most. According to them, federal employees are grossly overpaid and their benefits are far too generous, and for federal retirees, their pensions and health insurance benefits are far too generous. I was a despised/hated federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a despised/hated federal retiree for more than 27 years. While I was a federal employee, my salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year in today’s dollars. My Civil Service Retirement System pension is $66,780/year. The federal government pays 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums. In my defense, while I was a federal employee, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at veterans that they are especially hard-hit by federal cuts. While I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, many, most, and at times, virtually all my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were veterans. Ever since I became a federal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966, to turn them against me, my Democrat superiors stressed to them that I avoided the Vietnam War draft and they ever-increasingly hinted/implied/argued/shouted at them that if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft, I would not have been able to a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) earn master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, d) earn a professional license when I was 32, e) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., f) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, g) go on vacations when I was 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, etc., g) get married when I was 29, h) buy collector cars when I was 40 and 45, i) etc. I should write about my Democrat superiors who were veterans and who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
— Democrats run the federal government. They determine which of their employees suffer the most when Republicans cut their budgets. Potential federal employees who are the following should be warned that they will suffer the most when Republicans cut their agency’s budgets: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents have always painted my federal salary, benefits, and pension as being entitlements instead of earned. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents a) were wealthy, b) paid for their college expenses, and/or c) got them good jobs in the private sector. My parents were not wealthy. I had to work my way through college. My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. I would focus on my critics/opponents who never applied for a federal job or who applied and were rejected a) because they lacked qualifications and/or b) because they could not pass a background investigation. Even though I was conservative, Republican, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors had been in America since 1844, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office hired me in 1966, b) the Democrats who ran IRS in 1971, and c) the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980. I had qualified myself by a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management in 1970, c) earning an MBA in 1976, and d) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Debt, Deficits and DOGE
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/03/opinion-debt-deficits-and-doge.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Biden’s final tally: 8.3 million new immigrants, most of them here illegally
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/12/joe-bidens-final-tally-83-million-new-immigrants-illegally/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Sean Hannity among latest string of celebrities to buy Teslas in solidarity
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/business/3343919/sean-hannity-among-celebrities-buy-teslas-musk/
NEW YORK POST
— Columbia University refuses to help DHS identify pro-Hamas protesters for deportation
https://nypost.com/2025/03/11/us-news/columbia-university-refusing-to-help-id-anti-israel-protesters-for-deportationwhite-house/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Will the MAGA Barbarian Invasion Succeed?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/will_the_maga_barbarian_invasion_succeed.html
BREITBART
— Democrats Opened the Border Because They Can’t Win Elections with Only American Votes
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/11/expert-witness-democrats-opened-the-border-because-they-cant-win-elections-with-only-american-votes/
— Trump Administration Is Working To Exclude Illegals From Welfare Programs (COMMENT: How many illegals are Democrats and RINO leaders giving welfare to in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? Illegals are going to vote for Democrats, if they aren’t already.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/11/trump-admin-working-to-exclude-illegals-from-welfare-programs/
FOX NEWS
— Education secretary says department took first steps to eliminate ‘bureaucratic bloat.’ (COMMENT: Are/were you bureaucratic bloat? To deal with Gingrich-led Republican budget cuts in the 1990s, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997. They did not do that to my coworkers who were also eligible to retire, but who were Democrat, minority, female, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I had more work experience, more education, and/or more professional certifications than all my coworkers who my Democrat GAO superiors did not force to retire. I was the only one in the office who had a professional license.)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6369901522112
NEWSMAX
— Musk Eyes Social Security, Entitlements for Cuts Amid Widespread Fraud
https://www.newsmax.com/us/doge-cuts-entitlements/2025/03/10/id/1202240/
PJ MEDIA
— Here’s Why Trump Is Calling for a Republican Congressman to Be Primaried (COMMENT: Have you been a candidate? Have you been primaried? In 1999, I was the Assistant Precinct Committeeman (PC) for the DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 9 in Wheaton. The PC for that precinct resigned and endorsed me to me to be appointed to fill the vacancy, and that happened in December of 1999. But for the 2000 election, my Milton Township Republican Organization critics/opponents recruited a female registered Republican voter in my precinct to run against me. I won because both Peter Roskam and Randy Hultgren endorsed me in writing.)
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/11/heres-why-trump-is-calling-for-a-republican-congressman-to-be-primaried-n4937786
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— Democrat leaders say “Fired Federal Worker Who Voted for Trump Didn’t Expect the Devastation His Administration Would Cause.” (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. They determine which of their employees suffer the most when Republicans cut their budgets. Potential federal employees who are the following should be warned that they will suffer the most when Republicans cut their agency’s budgets: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/i-feel-a-little-bit-betrayed-fired-federal-worker-who-voted-for-trump-says-she-didn-t-expect-the-devastation-his-administration-would-cause-to-her-life/ar-AA1AGLqd
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders say “Trump Vows to Buy a Tesla to Support Musk After Shares Plunge. The president defended Elon Musk, a key donor and adviser, after shares in the electric-car maker hit their lowest point since before Election Day.” (COMMENT: All the cars and the SUV that I have bought are American nameplate.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/trump-elon-musk-tesla.html
— Democrat leaders say “Musk Suggests His Team Will Scrutinize Social Security and Entitlement Spending.” (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always painted my federal salary, benefits, and pension as being entitlements instead of earned. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents a) were wealthy, b) paid for their college expenses, and/or c) got them good jobs in the private sector. My parents were not wealthy. I had to work my way through college. My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. I would focus on my critics/opponents who never applied for a federal job or who applied and were rejected a) because they lacked qualifications and/or b) because they could not pass a background investigation. Even though I was conservative, Republican, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors had been in America since 1844, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office hired me in 1966, b) the Democrats who ran IRS in 1971, and c) the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980. I had qualified myself by a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management in 1970, c) earning an MBA in 1976, and d) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/musk-doge-social-security-entitlement-spending.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/business/economy/immigrant-workers-deportation-fears.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders say “U.S. revamps immigration app to add ‘self-deportation’ function.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/11/cbp-home-self-deportation-app-immigration/
— Democrat leaders say “White House insists Musk cuts to Social Security, Medicare won’t affect benefits. Elon Musk alleged that up to $700 billion in entitlement spending could be “waste and fraud,” raising alarm among Democrats.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/11/white-house-insists-musk-cuts-social-security-medicare-wont-affect-benefits/
HUDSON VALLEY PRESS
— Democrat leaders say “New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 19 other attorneys general last Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for illegally firing thousands of probationary federal workers.” (COMMENT: After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious when they learned that because I had served my probationary period when I was an IRS employee, they could not just fire me.)
https://hudsonvalleypress.com/2025/03/12/james-sues-trump-administration-over-firings-of-federal-workers/
LAKE COUNTY NEWS
— Democrat leaders say “5 reasons veterans are especially hard-hit by federal cuts.” (COMMENT: While I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, many, most, and at times, virtually all my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were veterans. Ever since I became a federal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966, to turn them against me, my Democrat superiors stressed to them that I avoided the Vietnam War draft and they ever-increasingly hinted/implied/argued/shouted at them that if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft, I would not have been able to a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) earn master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, d) earn a professional license when I was 32, e) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., f) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, g) go on vacations when I was 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, etc., g) get married when I was 29, h) buy collector cars when I was 40 and 45, i) etc. I should write about my Democrat superiors who were veterans and who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://lakeconews.com/news/81048-5-reasons-veterans-are-especially-hard-hit-by-federal-cuts
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Federal law requires employers to give veterans an advantage in hiring over people who have not served in the military. Under the 1944 Veterans Preference Act, employers should hire veterans over other candidates and retain veterans over other employees during layoffs. The idea is to compensate for the economic loss of serving in the military and acknowledge the government’s obligation, especially, to support disabled veterans. Due to this veterans preference, nearly 30% of federal workers are veterans, half of whom are disabled. This means that veterans, who make up 6.1% of the U.S. population, are disproportionately affected by federal worker cuts. One estimate is that of the 38,000 federal employees fired in the first five weeks of the Trump administration, 6,000 are veterans.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders say “A Big Downside of Retirement: We Have More Time to Worry About Our Health.” (COMMENT: Since 2000, my promoting conservative principles and the Republican Party platform has harmed my health big time. Instead of exercising, I put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and send them out.)
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/retirement-health-worries-b25bf759
FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders say “Vandalize Tesla property and the White House will prosecute you as a domestic terrorist, Trump pledges.”
https://fortune.com/2025/03/12/president-trump-vandalize-tesla-property-domestic-terrorist-elon-musk/
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders say “Smugglers Charge $550 to Move Migrants Away From Trump’s America.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-11/smugglers-are-charging-550-to-move-migrants-away-from-the-us
FLORIDA POLITICS
— Democrat leaders say “Jim Oberweis becomes first Republican to file for Byron Donalds’ seat in Congress.”
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/725612-jim-oberweis-becomes-first-republican-to-file-for-byron-donalds-seat-in-congress/
SPLC
— The U.S. Department of Education has acted like it was an arm of the Democrat Party.
https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/splc-president-condemns-actions-dismantle-department-education/
March 7, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Chicago FBI terrorism task force new objective: Immigration enforcement. Some worry reallocation of resources could allow crime to slip through the cracks. (COMMENT: Illegal immigration is a crime. Those who promote illegal immigration promote crime.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-fbi-terrorism-task-force-new-objective-during-president-donald-trump-administration-immigration-enforcement/15985664/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, those in America on SNAP will ever-increasingly increase. How many are on SNAP in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/stolen-snap-benefits-state-illinois-no-longer-reimbursing-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-food-benefit-fraud-victims/15985185/
NBC5
— Trump blames ‘globalists’ for stock market sell-off (COMMENT: My critics/opponents are globalists, that is, they want cheap foreign labor. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. They despise/hate the fact that I was a union member for almost 12 years, and that during that time, my salary increased from $19.37/hour to $112,280/year in today’s dollars. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree (management) and two job-related master’s degrees (business and accounting) and b) I earned a job-related professional certification (CPA).)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-blames-globalists-for-stock-market-sell-off/3690976/
— Trump puts new limits on Elon Musk’s authority amid backlash to DOGE cuts. The president instructed his Cabinet to work with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency but clarified that Cabinet members should be the ones making staffing decisions. (COMMENT: What about the legislative branch? During the 1990s, Gingrich cut GAO’s budget dramatically, but he let the head of GAO, Charles Bowsher, make all the staffing decisions. Bowsher assured that Gingrich’s cuts would not adversely impact GAO employees who were GS-15 (currently $163,749-$195,200/year) and above, minority, female, younger, veteran, and/or Ivy League degree holders, that is, that all the adverse impact would fall on GAO employees who were GS-14 (currently $139,211-$180,974/year) and below, White, male, older, non-veteran and/or were non-Ivy League degree holders. Because of the above, my having master’s degrees in management, accounting, and finance from non-Ivy League universities, my having six job-related professional certifications including in accounting and internal auditing, and my having a CPA license did not save me. Bowsher had an MBA from the University of Chicago, but he never passed the CPA examination and never become a licensed CPA.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-puts-new-limits-on-elon-musks-authority-amid-backlash-to-doge-cuts/3691187/
WGN9
— Jim Oberweis launches bid for Florida congressional seat
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/jim-oberweis-campaign-florida-19th-congressional/
FOX32
— DePaul University bans pro-Palestinian group from campus amid planned protest
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/depaul-university-bans-pro-palestinian-group-from-campus-amid-planned-protest
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— A 40-day boycott of Target that calls for supporters to give up shopping at the company’s stores during the Lenten period kicked off this week, to protest the discount retailer’s decision to end some of its DEI initiatives. (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents promote DEI.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/06/40-day-boycott-target-during-lent/
— To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrats ever-increasingly blame Republicans for problems that non-Whites have.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/07/opinion-teacher-diversity-illinois/
— A sad day dawns for Chicago’s own Walgreens
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/editorial-sad-day-dawns-chicago-110000485.html
— ‘It’s more urgent now’: Protests have taken over Chicago.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-urgent-now-protests-taken-110000037.html
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, those in America on Medicaid will ever-increasingly increase. How many are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/07/i-hope-people-have-some-kind-of-compassion-illinois-patients-hospitals-fear-potential-medicaid-cuts/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Amid Loop vacancies, Chicago’s property tax burden shifts to neighborhoods
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/03/07/property-taxes-loop-pandemic-christopher-berry-pat-quinn-joseph-schwieterman-joseph-ferguson-farzin-parang
JOURNAL COURIER
— Pritzker’s words now require ‘willing suspension of disbelief’
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/article/words-require-willing-suspension-disbelief-20196171.php
RIVER BENDER
— House GOP: House Democrats Must Bring Brandon Johnson to Springfield for Answers
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/house-democrats-must-bring-brandon-johnson-to-springfield-for-answers-80353.cfm?
NORTHWEST HERALD & SOUTHERN & NPR ILLINOIS
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, those in America on Medicaid will ever-increasingly increase. How many are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/03/07/medicaid-isnt-just-a-government-program-its-a-vital-support-system/
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/06/238925/
https://www.nprillinois.org/news/2025-03-06/illinois-lawmakers-educating-themselves-about-the-potential-impact-of-medicaid-cuts-first-listen
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Low marijuana sales hinder Evanston reparations distribution
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/03/06/city/low-marijuana-sales-hinder-evanston-reparations-distribution/
FOX2
— Pritzker takes action to support workers impacted by federal job cuts (COMMENT: I was impacted my federal job cuts. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich’s federal job cuts to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. So far, in today’s dollars, that has forced the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) to pay me $1.8 million. If I was still working, instead of collecting that $1.8 million to not work, I would have paid $295,000 into the CSRS. Who do you blame the most for the aforesaid? My Democrat GAO superiors or Gingrich? What is your position on paying employees to not work?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtBRE0V_7Kk
WAND TV
— Democrats push more pot in Danville.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/danville-gives-green-light-on-cannabis-lounge/article_f82148f0-fb01-11ef-9660-6b52635c9b12.html
— Illinois House GOP members criticize Democratic homeschool oversight bill
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/illinois-house-gop-members-criticize-democratic-homeschool-oversight-bill/article_8c7a8694-fac4-11ef-a66f-174fca7307ff.html
AXIOS CHICAGO
— Illinois Republicans endorse Indiana’s move to annex counties
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/03/07/illinois-indiana-boundaries-rivalry-state-government
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Hundreds rally at the Capitol to oppose homeschool bill. Opponents say bill is a slippery slope to more regulation.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/hundreds-rally-at-the-capitol-to-oppose-homeschool-bill/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Duckworth, Bost and a tale of two veterans
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/03/07/duckworth-bost-and-a-tale-of-two-veterans-00217217
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-469/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Proposed homeschooling mandates in Illinois facing strong opposition
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_ed078682-fac0-11ef-81f6-43de4265984c.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly have the mainstream news media spin against Trump everything that he says or does. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Social Security Administration has banned its employees from reading news websites. Because Google continues to refuse to deem www.gopillinois.com as being a news website, Social Security employees can continue to read it. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Federal law trumps state and local laws. But anticipate/expect that state and local Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly reject federal law. Previously, that caused the Civil War. Democrat leaders refused to end slavery. But today, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly paint and treat illegals as being runaway slaves. Illegals are not runaway slaves; they are citizens of foreign countries. – Dave Diersen
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, those in America on Medicaid will ever-increasingly increase. How many are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To promote DEI is to discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents promote DEI. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on paying employees to not work? My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich’s budget cuts to fire me when I was 49 years old in 1997, that is, to force me to retire. So far, in today’s dollars, that has forced the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) to pay me $1.8 million. If I was still working, instead of collecting that $1.8 million to not work, I would have paid $295,000 into the CSRS. Who do you blame the most for the aforesaid? My Democrat GAO superiors or Gingrich? What is your position on paying employees to not work? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I should write about the following who have blackballed me the most as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) conservative and religious leaders and activists, d) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, and e) Republican donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, campaign volunteers, etc. I would focus on the aforesaid who continue to have the most religious, government, political, and/or financial clout. I would focus on the aforesaid who continue to have their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to my critics/opponents, I have brought all my problems on myself. I acknowledge that my doing the following has caused me many big problems: a) I have always been a conservative Republican, b) I avoided the Vietnam War draft, c) I majored in management instead of accounting at UIC, NIU, and Loyola, d) I became a federal employee and stayed one for almost 30 years, e) I became a union member and stayed one for almost 12 years, f) I did not become a Democrat, g) I did not take and pass the CPA examination until I was 30 years old, h) I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination and become a licensed CPA until I was 32 years old, i) I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, j) I became an active member in a class action law suit that charged my superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation when I was 40 years old in 1988, k) I have filed lawsuits, and l) I have always refused to glorify and praise, pander to, serve as an operative or dupe for, coverup the wrongdoing of, and give money to leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, conservative organizations, and religious organizations. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Who do you blame problems on? Democrat and RINO leaders want you to blame problems on Trump and on those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Because I am all of the aforesaid, the following blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their problems: Democrat and RINO leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, conservative organizations, and religious organizations. – Dave Diersen
http://gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois lawmakers attack parents’ constitutional rights
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-lawmakers-attack-parents-constitutional-rights/
— Illinois’ emergency reserves lowest in nation
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-emergency-reserves-lowest-in-nation/
— Parents would see what children are learning under school transparency bills
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/parents-would-see-what-children-are-learning-under-school-transparency-bills/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— D.C. reparations law takes effect, opening door for payments to Black residents (COMMENT: How soon, if not already, will D.C. also pay reparations to its residents because they are: Democrat, members of other minority groups, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, have less money than others, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, in America illegally, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.?)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/6/dc-reparations-law-takes-effect-opening-door-payments-black-residents/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump’s long purge: The president is trying to undo the four years he was gone
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3338249/trump-first-month-white-house-executive-orders-undo-biden-policies/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Trump Executive Order Requires Aliens to Register
https://cis.org/Celler/Trump-Executive-Order-Requires-Aliens-Register
DAILY CALLER
— Fraud, Child Sex Changes, Healthcare For Illegals — Dems Spent Years Expanding Medicaid Beyond Recognition
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/06/fraud-child-sex-changes-healthcare-for-illegals-dems-spent-years-expanding-medicaid-beyond-recognition/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Attorney General Pam Bondi Issues a Commandment to Sanctuary Jurisdictions: ‘Thou Shalt Not Obstruct’ (COMMENT: Federal Law Trumps State And Local Laws.)
https://www.fairus.org/attorney-general-pam-bondi-issues-commandment-sanctuary-jurisdictions-thou-shalt-not-obstruct
FOX NEWS
— Homan: Sanctuary cities are not going to stop what the Trump administration is doing.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6369706309112
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Social Security Administration bans reading ‘general news’ at work (COMMENT: Because Google continues to refuse to deem www.gopillinois.com as being a news website, Social Security employees can continue to read it.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5181338-ssa-bans-general-news-websites/
— Loyalty over merit: Pete Hegseth’s dangerous military makeover (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me had more merit than I did. But they all were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger me, and/or veteran.)
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5178772-trump-hegseth-threat-weak/
ABC NEWS
— As federal workforce firings continue, town halls provide legal advice to former employees (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich’s budget cuts to fire me when I was 49 years old in 1997, that is, to force me to retire. So far, in today’s dollars, that has forced the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) to pay me $1.8 million. If I was still working, instead of collecting that $1.8 million to not work, I would have paid $295,000 into the CSRS. Who do you blame the most for the aforesaid? My Democrat GAO superiors or Gingrich?)
https://wjla.com/news/local/federal-workers-virginia-firings-town-hall-concern-trump-administration-layoffs-dc-maryland-emotional-layoffs-services-agency-abuse-union-aaron-rouse-ghazala-hashmi-library-community
NBC NEWS
— Social Security Administration bars employees from reading the news at work. In a Thursday morning email, the Social Security Administration said it was “implementing additional restrictions” on web browsing. (COMMENT: Because Google continues to refuse to deem www.gopillinois.com as being a news website, Social Security employees can continue to read it.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/social-security-administration-bars-employees-reading-news-work-rcna195096
— What do say to illegals who illegally bring their spouses and/or children illegally in with them illegally?
https://www.aol.com/trump-raids-now-target-migrants-171022255.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump’s Policies Have Shaken a Once-Solid Economic Outlook. Economic forecasts have deteriorated in recent weeks, reflecting the upheaval from federal layoffs, tariff moves and immigration roundups.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/business/economy/trump-economy-tariffs.html
— Tesla for Sale: Buyer’s Remorse Sinks In for Elon Musk’s E.V.-Owning Critics. The backlash against the electric vehicle company has intensified as the billionaire ally of President Trump exerts his power over the federal government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/business/tesla-boycott-elon-musk.html
— Trump’s Cuts to Federal Work Force Push Out Young Employees. The loss of early career workers has raised concerns about the impact on the next generation of civil servants. (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly wasted my career. It began big time when I was 25 years old in 1974.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/trump-cuts-young-federal-workers.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving manufacturing out of America.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/05/trump-wants-benefits-for-cars-made-in-usa/81614278007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Wins Fight to Fire Ethics Watchdog. Hampton Dellinger drops lawsuit after appeals court clears way for his removal from Office of Special Counsel (OSC). (COMMENT: OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors took many big adverse actions against me a) because I blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 years old in 1988 that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-wins-fight-to-fire-ethics-watchdog-f91c0b2f
— The Economics of DEI and Merit. A hiring approach that maximizes talent and rewards performance is the antidote to bias. (COMMENT: All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-economics-of-dei-and-merit-hiring-productivity-1fc094d2
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/us-migrants-mexico-border-conditions-4133946b
— Tesla’s Fortunes Fall as Musk Rises in Trump World. CEO’s politics erode brand’s appeal among some core buyers of electric vehicles; ‘I used to idolize the guy’
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-elon-musk-consumer-backlash-19326a57
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Trump Attacks on ABA Threaten Group’s Funding and Membership
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/trump-attacks-on-aba-threaten-groups-funding-and-membership
BUSINESS INSIDER
— These are the US military’s diversity photos Trump doesn’t want you to see
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-online-diversity-content-trump-dei-crackdown-2025-3
THE NATION
— Blackballing Journalists (COMMENT: I should write about the following who have blackballed me the most as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) conservative and religious leaders and activists, d) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, and e) Republican donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, campaign volunteers, etc. I would focus on the aforesaid who continue to have the most religious, government, political, and/or financial clout. I would focus on the aforesaid who continue to have their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/nick-turse-us-military-africom-blackballing-journalists/
POLITICO
— Sex, Drinking and Dementia: 25 Lawmakers Spill on What Congress Is Really Like. We interviewed Democrats and Republicans — on the record and anonymously — about life on Capitol Hill, what broke Congress and a whole lot more.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/07/lawmakers-spill-what-congress-is-really-like-00205491
March 6, 2025 Evening Edition
WHITE HOUSE
— Women’s History Month
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/03/womens-history-month-2025/
— Irish-American Heritage Month
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/03/irish-american-heritage-month-2025/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Voters ‘overwhelmingly’ choose this design in Illinois flag contest
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/voters-overwhelmingly-choose-this-design-in-illinois-flag-contest/3690327/
CBS2
— How could Trump’s plans to dismantle U.S. Department of Education affect Chicago area schools?
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/president-trump-executive-order-education-deparment-impact-chicago-schools/
FOX32
— Social Security employees banned from reading news websites at work
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/social-security-workforce-layoffs-employees-banned-news-websites
— Could President Trump dismantle the Dept. of Education?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1604319
WGN RADIO
— Does being a sanctuary city make it a safer city? (COMMENT: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.)
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/does-being-a-sanctuary-city-make-it-a-safer-city/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Head of Small Business Administration closing Chicago office, citing ‘sanctuary city’ status
https://chicago.suntimes.com/small-business/2025/03/06/small-business-administration-loeffler-offices-chicago-sanctuary-city
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are on Medicaid?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/06/trump-musk-federal-budget-cuts-health-care-medicare-medicaid-social-security-prescriptions-paxlovid
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/06/trump-vance-zelenskyy-lindsey-graham-rubio-spineless-mona-charen
DAILY HERALD
— Kane County Chair makes pitch for $51 million sales tax referendum
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250306/business/kane-county-chair-makes-pitch-for-51-million-sales-tax-referendum/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— What companies are saying — and not saying — about DEI and ESG now
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/dei-and-esg-downplayed-chicago-area-corporate-10ks
— Small Business Administration closing Chicago office over sanctuary city law
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/sba-closing-chicago-office-over-sanctuary-city-law
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— How Trump justifies his tariffs — from budget balancing to protecting ‘the soul’ of America
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-how-trump-justifies-his-tariffs-from-budget-balancing-to-protecting-the-soul-of-america/
NPR ILLINOIS
— How does the U.S. federal workforce compare with those in other countries? (COMMENT: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-06/how-does-the-u-s-federal-workforce-compare-with-those-in-other-countries
KSDK
— Illinois recruits laid-off federal workers for state jobs amid cuts
https://www.ksdk.com/article/money/economy/illinois-hiring-fired-federal-workers-trump-administrations/63-47271700-b021-4186-94a4-bbc06b976b03
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-262/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly have the mainstream news media spin against Trump everything that he says or does. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
JOHN BIVER
— The Reality of the 2026 Illinois Elections
https://johnbiver.com/the-reality-of-the-2026-illinois-elections/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Des Plaines Man–John Goodman–Announces Candidacy for GOP Nomination for U.S. Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/06/des-plaines-man-john-goodman-announces-candidacy-for-gop-nomination-for-u-s-senate/
— Buehler and Other Local Officials Attend Meeting with U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/06/buehler-attends-meeting-with-u-s-senators-dick-durbin-and-tammy-duckworth/
— Woodstock Manufacturer of Strong Paper Straws Costing Two Cents Apiece Fears Bankruptcy Because of Trump Executive Order
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/06/woodstock-manufacturer-of-strong-paper-straws-costing-two-cents-apiece-fears-bankruptcy/
— Comparing Counterfeiting Now and in the Late 1960’s
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/06/comparing-counterfeiting-now-and-in-the-late-1960s/
— Retaining Current State Flag Wins Contest
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/06/retaining-current-state-flag-wins-contest/
BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— IL Dems Overreach Again – Want to Require Private Schools to Register with the State
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/03/05/il-dems-overreach-again-want-to-require-private-schools-to-register-with-the-state
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump must stand strong against the left’s rage
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/6/trump-must-stand-strong-lefts-rage/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump’s Russia prostration is a great global gift to China
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3339920/trump-russia-prostration-great-global-gift-china/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump says he’s ‘looking at’ revoking visas for thousands of Ukrainians: ‘Not looking to hurt them’
https://nypost.com/2025/03/06/us-news/trump-to-revoke-legal-status-for-240000-ukrainians-as-us-steps-up-deportations/
FOX NEWS
— GOP rep says she’ll refer sanctuary city mayors for criminal prosecution
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-rep-says-shell-refer-sanctuary-city-mayors-criminal-prosecution
— The Small Business Administration announced a series of reforms on Thursday aimed at ensuring illegal immigrants don’t receive taxpayer benefits and removing offices from sanctuary cities.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-trump-agency-flips-script-biden-admin-awarding-illegals-taxpayer-benefits
— ‘Squad’ Democrat ‘wanted to be thrown out’ of sanctuary city hearing
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6369681649112
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEWSWEEK
— Elon Musk’s DOGE Cancels Lease at Obama Library Site
https://www.newsweek.com/doge-barack-obama-library-lease-canceled-2040816
CNN
— 10 Democrats join with Republicans to censure Rep. Al Green for Trump speech protest
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/politics/al-green-censure-trump-protest-house
— Trump says he will convene biweekly Cabinet sessions with Musk to make cuts more precise
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-administration-presidency-news-03-06-25#cm7xrjj9k00003b6m2wwe9e8l
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats’ Sanctuary City Choice. Mayors say they won’t change despite worries about migrant crime.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/sanctuary-cities-democrats-migrants-crime-michelle-wu-boston-denver-chicago-d9a877e8
— How Sanctuary Cities Are Fighting Trump’s Mass Deportations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6DsBVgBero
LAW
— Trump Order Calls For DEI Policy Review of ‘Leading Law Firms’
https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2025/03/06/trump-order-calls-for-dei-policy-review-of-leading-law-firms/
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout at non-Whites that Republicans cause all the problems that non-Whites have.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/well-read/202503/how-systemic-racism-impacts-student-mental-health
March 6, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn tariffs.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/trumps-tariffs-explainer/
— The historic Crown Point Courthouse saw one of several demonstrations organized across 50 states ahead of President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday evening.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/region-residents-join-nationwide-demonstrations-on-eve-of-trump-speech-in-congress/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/lake-countys-congressmen-give-trump-speech-the-cold-shoulder-he-stands-for-only-one-thing-himself/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, homelessness will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/06/opinion-homelessness-criminalization-grants-pass-camping-bans-illinois-legislation/
— Early voting for April 1 election begins Friday in Kane County
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/early-voting-for-april-1-election-begins-friday-in-kane-county-officials-say/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly a) promote the hate-filled Trump-hating Mayor of Chicago and b) demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump..
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/05/brandon-johnson-sanctuary-city-hearing-chicago-house-oversight-committee
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn tariffs.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/small-business/2025/03/05/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-illinois-businesses-facing-scary-times
— Robert Crimo III signs trial waiver ‘Donald Trump’ after pleading guilty to Highland Park parade shooting. Experts say his guilty plea should stand. “He can sign Mickey Mouse or Donald Trump,” said Richard Kling, a law professor at Kent College of Law. What matters, he said, is that there is a transcript of Crimo orally pleading guilty, which Crimo did Monday.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/highland-park-parade-shooting/2025/03/05/highland-park-parade-shooting-robert-crimo-trial-waiver-donald-trump
DAILY HERALD
— Early voting ahead of April 1 election begins Friday for some, March 17 for others (COMMENT: As a Republican Precinct Committeeman, I will use 805 mailing labels to hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and marked sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one registered Republican or one Independent voter.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250305/local-politics/early-voting-ahead-of-april-1-election-begins-friday-for-some-march-17-for-others/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Lisle mayor, trustees at odds over police chief hiring process (COMMENT: How did you get your jobs? The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat who was minority, female, younger, or veteran who would take the job. For the Post Office job, I had passed the postal employment examination and I had earned a high school diploma. For the IRS job, I had passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earned a bachelor’s degree in business from NIU. For the GAO job, I had earned an MBA from Loyola, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250305/news/lisle-mayor-trustees-at-odds-over-police-chief-hiring-process/
NBC5
— Appeals court allows Trump to remove Office of Special Counsel (OSC) ethics watchdog Hampton Dellinger — for now (COMMENT: OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors took many big adverse actions against me a) because I blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 years old in 1988 that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/appeals-court-allows-trump-administration-to-remove-federal-ethics-watchdog/3689910/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The Special Counsel’s job is to look into and expose unethical or unlawful practices directed at federal civil servants, and to help ensure that whistleblowers who disclose fraud, waste, and abuse on the part of government agencies can do so without suffering reprisals,”)
— DOGE recommends closing multiple Social Security offices across the U.S., including in Illinois. The proposed closure comes after reports that the Social Security Administration is preparing to lay off least 7,000 people from its workforce. (COMMENT: My Medicare is more than my Social Security. That may explain why I did not get a SSA-1099. But the Social Security website would not let me request one and no one answered at Social Security after hours of being in hold.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/doge-recommends-closing-multiple-social-security-offices-across-the-u-s-including-in-illinois/3689639/
FOX32
— LaHood calls Johnson ‘tone deaf’ to needs of Chicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DTtTNdlAl7lA
SOUTHERN
— Trump administration hit with over 100 lawsuits since inauguration
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/06/trump-administration-hit-with-over-100-lawsuits-since-inauguration/
RIVER BENDER
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/trump-administration-cuts-funding-for-grants-that-support-illinois-farmers-and-food-banks-80297.cfm?
STATELINE
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-gov-pritzker-warns-1-million-may-lose-health-care-coverage-if-medicaid-funding-cut/
CLINTON JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn tariffs.
https://theclintonjournal.com/stories/tariffs-on-illinois-largest-trading-partners,86466
WAND TV
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/legislative-leaders-urge-illinois-gop-congressional-delegation-to-vote-against-medicaid-cuts/article_88944766-fa08-11ef-b1f9-632b456fc219.html
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Appeals court rules that Trump can remove head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC). OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors took many big adverse actions against me a) because I blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 years old in 1988 that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-03-05/trump-administration-can-remove-head-of-federal-watchdog-agency-appeals-court-rules
(FROM THE ARTICLE: OSC is responsible for guarding the federal workforce from illegal personnel actions, such as retaliation for whistleblowing. It investigates whistleblower claims of reprisal, can pursue disciplinary action against employees who punish whistleblowers and provides a channel for employees to disclose government wrongdoing.)
AXIOS CHICAGO
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/03/05/house-budget-medicaid-cuts-illinois
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Brandon Johnson gets a D.C. grilling
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/03/06/brandon-johnson-v-darin-lahood-00215402
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-468/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— One of the first targets for an Illinois DOGE? Chicago’s 20 nearly-empty, failing schools. Here’s the 2025 list.
https://wirepoints.org/one-of-the-first-targets-for-an-illinois-doge-chicagos-20-nearly-empty-failing-schools-heres-the-2025-list-wirepoints/
COOK COUNTY RECORD
— Illinois officials have the constitutional authority to essentially thumb their nose at federal immigration agents and complicate federal efforts to locate and remove illegal immigrants, according to a new filing from Illinois’ state attorney general. (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly reject the rule of law.)
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/670297274-new-filing-illinois-has-constitutional-authority-to-ignore-immigration-law-complicate-deportations
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The Democrat-led mainstream news media ever-increasingly spins negatively everything that Trump says and does. – Dave Diersen
http://gopillinois.com
— All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Office of Special Counsel’s (OSC) job is to look into and expose unethical or unlawful practices directed at federal civil servants, and to help ensure that whistleblowers who disclose fraud, waste, and abuse on the part of government agencies can do so without suffering reprisals, But OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors took many big adverse actions against me a) because I blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 years old in 1988 that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Oberweis Tries for Congress Again (COMMENT: I did much to help Oberweis win general elections. Of course, my critics/opponents always hinted/implied/argued/shouted at him that I caused all his defeats. I should write about my critics/opponents.)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/05/oberweis-tries-for-congress-again/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Trump Declares ‘America is Back’ as House Speaker Removes Rep. Al Green for Disrupting Presidential Speech to Congress
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/03/trump-declares-america-is-back-as-house-speaker-removes-rep-al-green-for-disrupting-presidential-speech-to-congress.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
U.S. HOUSE
— Sanctuary Mayors Refuse to Change Policies That Obstruct Federal Immigration Enforcement and Protect Dangerous Criminal Aliens
https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-sanctuary-mayors-refuse-to-change-policies-that-obstruct-federal-immigration-enforcement-and-protect-dangerous-criminal-aliens/
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats are delusional in their open embrace of illegals
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/6/democrats-delusional-open-embrace-illegals/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Trump’s triumphant vision as America’s renewal shines in historic address
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/trump_s_triumphant_vision_as_america_s_renewal_shines_in_historic_address.html
BREITBART
— Trump Reforms Yield Several Arrests of Illegal Aliens Taking American Jobs
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/05/trump-reforms-yield-several-arrests-illegals-taking-american-jobs/
— The more demographics that you have that vote for Republicans and the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more hatred that Democrat and RINO leaders promote against you.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/05/there-is-no-america-without-migrants-says-democrat-attorney-general/
DAILY CALLER
— Soaring Levels Of Non-English Speaking Students May Be Driving National Reading Test Scores Into Ground (COMMENT: Delay in dumping German held my ancestors back big time. All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. Yet, all my grandparents still spoke German. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/05/soaring-levels-of-non-english-speaking-students-may-be-driving-national-reading-test-scores-into-ground/
FOX BUSINESS
— Mayors gave ‘woke wonderment’ and ‘double-talk’
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6369653272112
FOX NEWS
— DNC hires new top exec with long history of pushing racial grievances, leftist ideology. Roger Lau previously worked for progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dnc-hires-new-top-exec-with-long-history-pushing-racial-grievances-leftist-ideology?lid=4j232h861vbo
— Republican, independent voters react positively to Trump declaring US ‘woke no longer’ Democrats in the focus groups tests did not react at all favorably to Trump’s statements during his address to Congress.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/republican-independent-voters-react-positively-trump-declaring-us-woke-no-longer
GREG GIROUX
— Former Illinois state Sen. Jim Oberweis (R), who relocated to SW Florida after close loss to Rep. Lauren Underwood (D) in 2020, filed papers to seek #FL19 seat Rep. Byron Donalds (R) is giving up to run for governor. (COMMENT: I did much to help Oberweis win general elections. Of course, my critics/opponents always hinted/implied/argued/shouted at him that I caused all his defeats. I should write about my critics/opponents.)
https://x.com/greggiroux/status/1897388737275031939
JAMES A. FUREY
— Education bureaucrats lower standards in the name of ‘equity’ and call it progress. In reality, they are condemning students, particularly the most vulnerable, to a lifetime of limited opportunity. (COMMENT: All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://x.com/JamesAFurey/status/1897400171593654726
JIM OBERWEIS FOR CONGRESS
https://votejimo.com/
NEWSMAX
— Sanctuary City Mayors ‘Put Illegals First’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/james-comer-chicago-denver/2025/03/05/id/1201616/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Trump plans to revoke legal status of Ukrainians who fled to US
https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-trump-plans-revoke-legal-111130604.html
NEWSWEEK
— Sanctuary City Hearing Descends Into Chaos: ‘This Is My Right!’ (COMMENT: How strongly are your county, county district, township, municipality, municipal district, school district, and precinct sanctuaries for illegals?)
https://www.newsweek.com/sanctuary-city-hearing-james-comer-ayanna-pressley-chaos-2040235
C-SPAN
— Trump Praises Efforts to End DEI “Woke” Policies in Defense Dept.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5155812/president-trump-praises-efforts-end-dei-woke-policies-defense-dept
CBS NEWS
— Highland Park parade shooter signed “Donald Trump” on trial waiver rather than his own name after guilty plea
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/highland-park-parade-shooter-donald-trump-name-document/
NEW YORK TIMES
— More Than 70 Million Americans Are on Medicaid. This Is Where They Live. (COMMENT: How many are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? Why are they on Medicaid?)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/medicaid-enrollment.html
— There Is No Musk Exception in the Constitution
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/opinion/elon-musk-trump-constitution.html
— ‘Hamilton’ Cancels Kennedy Center Run Over Trump’s Takeover. “We’re not going to be a part of it while it is the Trump Kennedy Center,” said the show’s creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/theater/hamilton-kennedy-center-trump-miranda.html
WASHINGTON POST
— D.C. U.S. attorney tells Georgetown he won’t hire from any school with ‘DEI’ (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to lower standards for Democrats who are minority, female, and/or younger.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/05/dc-us-attorney-ed-martin-georgetown-law-dei/
— The Democratic fight over how to respond to Trump has already begun (COMMENT: I wonder what the hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will shout at me as I hand-deliver sample ballots and Republican campaign literature in my precinct.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/05/democrats-trump-speech-reaction-debate/
USA TODAY
— Canadian province leader threatens to cut off energy to 3 US states, imposes 25% surcharge
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/04/ontario-canada-tariff-retaliation-energy-states/81350351007/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/04/trump-dei-backlash-explained/81170427007/
NEW YORKER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-many-immigrants-will-die-in-us-custody
FINANCIAL REVIEW
— All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/gender-data-shows-any-lack-of-meritocracy-is-working-in-favour-of-men-20250225-p5lf18
PRESS AND GUIDE & NEWS HERALD
— Today in history: John Belushi’s death shocks hometown of Wheaton
https://www.pressandguide.com/2025/03/05/today-in-chicago-history-john-belushis-death-shocks-the-city/
https://www.thenewsherald.com/2025/03/05/today-in-chicago-history-john-belushis-death-shocks-the-city/
March 5, 2025
WHITE HOUSE
— Democrats Showed Whose Side They’re On — And it’s Not the American People
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/03/democrats-showed-whose-side-theyre-on-and-its-not-the-american-people/
ILLINOIS GOP
— ILGOP Responds to President Trump’s Address To Joint Session Of Congress: Following President Trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress in his second term as president, ILGOP Chair Kathy Salvi released the following statement: “Tonight, President Trump addressed millions of Americans around the country and outlined his administration’s first 43 days in office – common sense solutions, securing our border, stopping government waste and abuse, and putting America First. The next four years will be full of prosperity as we get our country back on track and the Illinois Republican Party will continue to work with President Trump to help Illinois families and Make America Great Again.”
https://illinois.gop/ilgop-responds-to-president-trumps-address-to-joint-session-of-congress/
EPOCH TIMES
— 12 Takeaways From Trump’s First Major Policy Speech to Congress. Trump touted his administration’s achievements in its first 42 days, and promised greater prosperity and security for the nation.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/12-takeaways-from-trumps-first-major-policy-speech-to-congress-5820120
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 1. Tax Cuts Promised for All Americans. . .2. Border Closed, Deportations Underway. . .3. Trump Touts ‘Common Sense Revolution’. . .including rooting out “woke” ideas from the government and federally-funded programs. He referenced an executive order signed early in his second term declaring that the federal government recognizes only two sexes, based on biological sex at conception and not “gender ideology.” Trump highlighted his executive order stripping federal funding for schools that allow males to compete in female sports. One order declared that it is the official policy of the United States that Title IX applies to women and not men who identify as transgender females. The first gallery guest introduced by Trump was Payton McNabb, a female athlete who suffered injuries while playing volleyball against a male player. Trump also referenced merit-based hiring—rather than hiring to meet diversity quotas—as part of his “common sense revolution” agenda. . .4. Tariffs Explained, ‘A Little Disturbance’. . .5. DOGE Findings Highlighted. . .6. Promises Balanced Budget. . .7. Victims Spotlighted. . .8. Direct Appeal to Greenlanders. . .9. Letter From Zelenskyy. . .10. New Shipbuilding Office. . .11. Arrest of Top Terrorist Responsible for Abbey Gate. . .12. Democrats Respond)
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders spin Trump’s speech against him
https://abc7chicago.com/post/key-takeaways-pres-trumps-speech-congress/15979123/
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/trump-joint-session-of-congress-live-updates/15977198/entry/15978756/
— Democrat leaders fact check Trump’s speech. During the last 11 years that I worked for GAO at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, I often worked as a fact-checker.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/fact-checking-trumps-speech-congress/15978671/
— A disjointed response from the Democrats
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/trump-joint-session-of-congress-live-updates/15977198/entry/15978647/
— Chicago-area protests held as Trump delivers address to Congress; local politicians weigh in
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-speech-today-federal-plaza-chicago-protest-among-several-held-area-response-address-congress/15978909/
— Trump administration ends reimbursements for Illinois food programs. USDA funds are part of nearly $2 billion being withheld from Illinois, Pritzker says. (COMMENT: To what extent are those in your country, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on federal food programs?)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-administration-ends-reimbursements-program-designed-help-farmers-supply-fresh-food-illinois-banks/15978548/
— Stocks tumble after Trump tariffs take effect
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/trump-joint-session-of-congress-live-updates/15977198/entry/15978114/
CBS2
— CTU holding rallies, walk-ins in Chicago for “Protect our Kids” day of action
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-teachers-rally-protect-our-kids/
FOX32
— Illinois politicos react to Trump’s first speech to Congress in 2nd term
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-speech-reax-illinois
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEBpaq1CGhg
— Chicago activists push for immigrant rights amid scrutiny of sanctuary cities. As Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson prepares to face questioning from members of Congress over the city’s sanctuary laws, local activists argued for the importance of the city upholding immigrants’ rights.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1602832
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs against Trump
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1603216
— Krishnamoorthi expects ‘attack on Chicago’ at Johnson hearing
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-congressman-expects-attack-chicago-johnson-hearing
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/04/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-trump-administration-birthright-citizenship-and
WBEZ
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to destroy Republicans.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/03/05/dei-isnt-just-lawful-its-mission-critical
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD IN NAPERVILLE SUN: After nearly four-month break, gun arrests outside Naperville Topgolf resume with three busts in four weeks
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/04/naperville-police-topgolf-gun-firearm-arrest/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump’s Justice Department files to join legal challenge to Illinois nonprofit diversity law
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-justice-department-join-challenge-illinois-dei-law
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Trump says he’ll cut funds to colleges for ‘illegal’ protests, arrest and deport agitators
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2025/03/05/rockford-activists-say-trump-lacks-authority-over-on-campus-protests/81380530007/
SOUTHERN
— Who do you blame for high grocery prices and why?
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/05/in-democratic-response-slotkin-says-trump-has-no-credible-plan-to-lower-grocery-prices/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump touts success of immigration crackdown, pushes Congress to pass funding
https://foxillinois.com/news/connect-to-congress/president-donald-trump-touts-success-of-immigration-crackdown-pushes-congress-to-pass-funding-migrants-asylum-border-wall-deportations-ice-dhs-title-42
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump says he is ‘just getting started,’ as he faces vocal protests from Democrats
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-04/trump-says-he-is-just-getting-started-as-he-faces-vocal-protests-from-democrats
WIFR
— Illinois representatives react to Trump’s joint address to congress
https://www.wifr.com/2025/03/05/illinois-representatives-react-trumps-joint-address-congress/
WCIA
— Democrats ever-increasingly push pot in Danville
https://www.wcia.com/news/vermilion-county/seven-point-dispensary-to-expand-in-danville-after-approval-of-consumption-lounge/
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— You want privacy with that? (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, including almost 9 years for IRS and 3 years for GAO on audits of IRS. Federal employees who are Republican should anticipate/expect that their Democrat superiors will get your tax information and use it against you. My Democrat IRS superiors used my tax information to disallow my education deductions. My Democrat GAO superiors used my and my wife’s tax information to paint me as being undeservedly filthy rich.)
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-03-05/perspective-you-want-privacy-with-that
(FROM THE ARTICLE: We’re well into a particularly dreaded time of year. Ah, yes. It’s time to pay 2024 taxes. According to a 2023 report from an ad hoc Congressional committee, “Big Tax Prep has recklessly shared tens of millions of taxpayers’ sensitive personal and financial data…for years in what appears to represent a violation of taxpayer privacy laws.” That’s pretty scathing. Think about this: the instant you open that commercial tax package and start uploading your data, you may be risking the loss of your financial privacy. It has me thinking about going back to the twentieth century and filing on paper! Fortunately, Congress and the Internal Revenue Service are rolling out a remedy. This year, it’s now possible for taxpayers in twenty-five states (including Illinois and Wisconsin) to file directly with the IRS – for free. The process will forever be (dare I say) taxing. But at least we’re getting some privacy protections with the new IRS Direct File program. I suppose we can call that……progress.)
AXIOS CHICAGO
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent om Medicaid?
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/03/05/house-budget-medicaid-cuts-illinois
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— ICE Says It Will Reveal Who Was Arrested In Chicago ‘As Soon As Possible’ — Which Might Be Never
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/04/ice-says-it-will-reveal-who-was-arrested-in-chicago-as-soon-as-possible-which-might-be-never/
STATE OF ILLINOIS
— Pritzker Acts to Support Federal Workers. State of Illinois will host two career fairs in March for former federal employees in Edwardsville and Chicago. (COMMENT: I have been a former federal employee for more than 27 years. Illinois has never indicated that it might want to hire me. It has never helped me find a job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license. For that matter, neither has DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, or Wheaton Warrenville School District 200.)
https://www.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/illinois/iisnewsattachments/30997-030525-cms-march-job-fairs-press-release.pdf.pdf
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Trump: ‘Wokeness is trouble’
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/03/05/trump-wokeness-is-trouble-00213050
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-467/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— We shouldn’t be proud to have 3.6 million Illinoisans on Medicaid, it means we’re an economic failure
https://wirepoints.org/we-shouldnt-be-proud-to-have-3-6-million-illinoisans-on-medicaid-it-means-economic-failure-wirepoints-on-chicago-tonight/
— So-called voter education group — League of Women Voters — says don’t attend, engage or watch State of Union speech
https://wirepoints.org/so-called-voter-education-group-league-of-women-voters-says-dont-attend-engage-or-watch-state-of-union-speech-wirepoints-quickpoint/
— Be ready for Mayor Johnson to wiggle out of every question he’s asked
https://wirepoints.org/be-ready-for-mayor-johnson-to-weasel-out-of-every-question-hes-asked-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Early childhood agency proposes budget, questioned about ‘White Fragility’
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_9012a9d8-f94a-11ef-af4e-2b0663225ced.html
COOK COUNTY RECORD
— IL high court questions if GOP gerrymandering suit is ‘timely;’ GOP: ‘Unquestionably’ so
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/670216205-il-high-court-questions-if-gop-gerrymandering-suit-is-timely-gop-unquestionably-so
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What discourages you from helping elect Republican candidates? For me, it includes my seeing far too many of them who I have helped elect since 2000 a) dump planks in the Republican Party platform if not work against those planks and/or b) blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrats and RINOs are woke. To be woke is to work against Americans who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Wokeness/wokeism is Affirmative Action, DEI, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Since the 1960s, Democrats and RINOs have ever-increasingly used the aforesaid to get rid of me. If my Democrat superiors in the federal government had not used the aforesaid against me, I would have made Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year, long before I was 40 years old. I say that because a) I earned job-related master’s degree when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) I became a licensed CPA when I was 32. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32. None of my coworkers had accomplishments anywhere near the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If my parents had not sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran Grade Schools, I would not have been able to a) get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my class, or c) get accepted by UIC. To teach wokeness/wokeism is to demonize, denigrate, and condemn students who are White, male, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— League of Women Voters Advised “DO NOT ATTEND, ENGAGE, OR WATCH THE STATE OF THE UNION”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/05/league-of-women-voters-advises-do-not-attend-engage-or-watch-the-state-of-the-union/
— CBS Turns Burton’s Bridge Brushfire into a Climate Change Story, Three Stations Use Alex Vucha’s Stunning Photos
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/05/cbs-turns-burtons-bridge-brushfire-into-a-climate-change-story-three-stations-use-alex-vuchas-stunning-photos/
— LaHood Comments on President’s Speech
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/05/lahood-comments-on-presidents-speech/
— Two Subjects Trump Did Not Talk About
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/05/two-subjects-trump-did-not-talk-about/
— The Wrath of God’
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox?compose=DmwnWrRsqXnvpzZnJQcwnDnbnqTbbgzdsqPDLMrJsHxshZzzctVLVhdPLBfmpLqXfKkqpTvmnlwB
— Legislative Reaction to Data Centers’ Electricity Sucking
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/04/legislative-reaction-to-data-centers-electricity-sucking/
— Dems’ Illegal Alien Health Care Lives Down to Republican Expectations
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/03/dems-illegal-alien-health-care-lives-down-to-republican-expectations/
— No Car? How To Get Around in McHenry County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/03/no-car/
— Illinois Still Has Second Highest Property Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/03/illinois-still-has-second-highest-property-taxes/
— Pritzker Urged to Ban Chinese Communist Party DeepSeek Software on State Devices
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/03/pritzker-urged-to-ban-chinese-communist-party-deepseek-software-on-state-devices/
— Lakewood’s Golfing Elected Officials In for a Surprise When They Read This
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/03/lakewoods-golfing-elected-officials-in-for-a-surprise-when-they-read-this/
— Barack’s Crumbling Tower of Babble
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/02/baracks-crumbling-tower-of-babble/
— Darin LaHood Interviewed on WGN Radio, Blames Putin for Starting the War
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/01/darin-lahood-interviewed-on-wgn-radio-blames-putin-for-starting-the-way/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Teachers unions don’t want teachers evaluated on how well students are learning
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/teachers-unions-dont-want-teachers-evaluated-on-how-well-students-are-learning/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump promises that U.S. ‘will be woke no longer’ (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs are woke. To be woke is to work against Americans who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Since the 1960s, Democrats and RINOs have ever-increasingly used wokeness/wokeism to get rid of me.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/4/donald-trump-promises-us-woke-longer/
— Speaker Johnson says Democratic Rep. Al Green faces censure for disrupting Trump speech
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/5/speaker-mike-johnson-says-democratic-rep-al-green-faces-censure/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump brings back sanity, rebukes the LGBT lobby
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3336980/trump-brings-back-sanity-rebukes-lgbt-lobby/#google_vignette
NEW YORK POST
— Trump hails his whirlwind, six-week ‘common sense revolution’ — as downbeat Dems protest address to Congress
https://nypost.com/2025/03/04/us-news/trump-hails-whirlwind-six-weeks-as-common-sense-revolution-as-dems-heckle-and-protest-address-to-congress/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Trump Is On The Verge Of Ending The EPA’s Tyranny
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/trump_is_on_the_verge_of_ending_the_epa_s_tyranny.html
BREITBART
— Trump Touts Getting Wokeness Out of the Military, Recruiting Numbers Up
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/04/trump-touts-getting-wokeness-out-of-the-military-recruiting-numbers-up/
— Trump: Deporting Biden’s Migrants Is ‘Great Liberation of America’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/05/trump-deporting-bidens-migrants-is-great-liberation-of-america/
— Trump: We Needed a ‘New President,’ Not ‘New Legislation’ to Secure Border
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/04/trump-needed-new-president-not-new-legislation-secure-border/
— Trump Shutting Down Biden’s Texas-Based Soft Sided Migrant Detention Centers
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/03/04/exclusive-trump-shutting-down-bidens-texas-based-soft-sided-migrant-detention-centers-says-source/
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Overpowers Democrat Protests With Verbal Highlight Reel Of First Six Weeks In Office
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/04/donald-trump-address-joint-session-congress-al-green-protest/
DAILY SIGNAL
— 13 Winners and Losers From Trump’s Address to Congress
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/04/winners-losers-trumps-address-to-congress/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump: It Is Time For America To ‘Wage War On The Cartels’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-it-is-time-for-america-to-wage-war-on-the-cartels
— Trump Will Use ‘Full Might’ Of Government To Crush Cartels
https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-tells-daily-wire-trump-will-use-full-might-of-government-to-crush-cartels
FOX NEWS
— Chicago alderman says Mayor Brandon Johnson can’t defend sanctuary city policies: ‘Lamb to the slaughter’ The Chicago mayor has promised to defend the sanctuary city’s policies on illegal immigrants.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-alderman-says-mayor-brandon-johnson-cant-defend-sanctuary-city-policies-lamb-slaughter
— Trump takes on ‘toxic ideologies’ in schools and gender surgeries in children: ‘Wokeness is trouble’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6369618651112
— Trump proclaims that ‘wokeness is dead,’ calls to permanently ban sex changes for minors. Trump said that wokeness is ‘out of our society.’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-proclaims-wokeness-dead-calls-permanently-ban-sex-changes-minors
— Trump promises ‘this will be our greatest era’ in joint address to Congress
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-promises-this-our-greatest-era-joint-address-congress
NEWSMAX
— Democrats Backing Largest Tax Hike in History
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/kevin-hern-democrats-joe-biden/2025/03/04/id/1201402/
— Dem Mayors in Congress Talking Sanctuary Cities Protecting Criminal Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/democrat-sanctuary-city/2025/03/05/id/1201461/
PJ MEDIA
— Trump Honors Girls Murdered by Illegals, Dems Refuse to Applaud
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/03/05/trump-tells-story-of-angel-laken-murdered-by-illegal-n4937580
TOWNHALL
— Under President Trump, America’s Borders Are Secure Again
https://townhall.com/columnists/congressmanandybiggs/2025/03/05/under-president-trump-americas-borders-are-secure-again-n2653226
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump vows to press ahead on reshaping America in speech to Congress as Democrats register dissent
https://apnews.com/article/trump-speech-congress-immigration-tariffs-guests-93f6107ede260854f90c65c4bde60de8
REUTERS
— Trump touts relentless start to term in speech to Congress, drawing catcalls from Democrats
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-address-congress-after-upending-us-foreign-domestic-policies-2025-03-04/
NBC NEWS
— Key takeaways from Trump’s speech to Congress: A focus on culture wars and GOP unity, as Democrats protest. Trump defended his tariffs, bashed “wokeness” and outlined his tax agenda as Democrats heckled him, while some in the party chose between audible and silent protests.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-speech-highlights-takeaways-congress-address-rcna193844
NEW YORK TIMES
— Full Transcript of President Trump’s Speech to Congress. In a speech to Congress in his first weeks in office, the president laid out his vision to remake U.S. policy on the military, trade, immigration and foreign aid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/us/politics/transcript-trump-speech-congress.html
— Congressional Speech Highlights: Trump Asserts Term Is Off to a ‘Swift and Unrelenting’ Start. President Trump highlighted the many actions his administration has taken in the past six weeks, including drastic cuts to the federal work force and the eradication of diversity initiatives.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/04/us/trump-speech-congress
— What Republican Men Think About Trump and Masculinity
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/upshot/trump-men-masculinity-gender.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Defiant Trump signals full speed ahead on divisive policies. Trump addressed a divided nation in a speech marked by acrimony, as a Texas Democrat was escorted from the chamber within the first few moments and as Trump taunted Democrats in the room.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/04/trump-speech-to-congress/
— Republicans applaud Trump address to Congress; Democrats blast it as divisive
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/05/trump-presidency-news-speech/
USA TODAY
— Elon Musk gets high praise and a shoutout in Trump’s joint address: ‘He didn’t need this’
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/04/elon-musk-gets-shoutout-by-trump-in-joint-address/81155034007/
— Trump puts tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, China. Where does the tariff money go? (COMMENT: I am importing a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T from Canada. How will tariffs impact that?)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/05/where-does-tariff-money-go/81375235007/
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to destroy Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/04/trump-dei-backlash-explained/81170427007/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Trust in Trump’: President’s supporters dismiss alarm bells from critics (COMMENT: What discourages you from helping elect Republican candidates? For me, it includes my seeing far too many who I have helped elect since 2000 a) dump planks in the Republican Party platform if not work against those planks and/or b) blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/04/trump-trust-joint-address-congress/78245523007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Touts Rapid Action on Border, Budget and Economy
The State-of-the-Union-style address gave the president a chance to sell his agenda to the American public six weeks into his second term
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/donald-trump-speech-congress-32b8bda1
— Trump’s Tariffs Whack Trump Voters. Whatever happened to GOP concern for the working class?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-working-class-voters-dc140dbc
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders say “Trump “delivered the biggest speech of his presidency yet, hitting on partisan talking points favored by his conservative base, while largely sidestepping the effects of his sweeping tariff proposals on consumers.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-05/tariff-defense-democrats-protest-takeaways-from-trump-s-speech
— Democrat leaders say “How Trump Is Fueling the Backlash Against DEI.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-04/dei-trump-s-executive-orders-targeting-diversity-policies-are-fueling-backlash
POLITICO
— Trump celebrates disruption and defies backlash. “The people elected me to do the job, and I’m doing it.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/04/trump-joint-address-speech-what-happened-00212916
PBS
— Trump says his administration is getting ‘wokeness out of our schools’ (COMMENT: If my parents had not sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran Grade Schools, I would not have been able to a) get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my class, or c) get accepted by UIC. To teach wokeness/wokeism is to demonize, denigrate, and condemn students who are White, male, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGVXBniEsz8
NDTV
— “Permanently Ban Sex Change, End This Lie”: Trump Rages Against ‘Wokeness’ Trump also said he had “removed the poison of critical race theory” from public schools, referring to a framework identifying racial bias as inherent in parts of Western society.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trump-us-congress-speech-us-2-gender-policy-ban-sex-change-permanently-ban-sex-change-end-this-lie-trump-rages-against-wokeness-7851999